''The Bellevue Gazette'' was an American bi-weekly newspaper published Wednesdays and Saturdays in Bellevue, Ohio from 1851 to 2016. It was owned by Civitas Media, a subsidiary of Versa Capital Management.

History

First appearing as a short-lived weekly newspaper in 1851, ''The Bellevue Gazette'' was published continuously since being refounded in October 1867, and daily since 1899, originally as ''The Bellevue Record'', then ''The Evening Gazette'', before adopting the name ''Bellevue Gazette'' in 1906. For more than a century, ''The Bellevue Gazette'' was the

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of The Gazette Publishing Company, a chain that also included eight weeklies across

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. The company, owned by the Callaghan family, was sold to

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of Cincinnati in 2007. Brown declared bankruptcy and was reconstituted as Ohio Community Media in 2010. The company, including ''The Bellevue Gazette'', was purchased for an undisclosed sum in 2011 by Philadelphia-based Versa Capital Management. On June 1, 2016, the ''Bellevue Gazette'' published its final addition after Civitas Media announced both the Bellevue paper and the ''Clyde Enterprise'' would be shuttered.

References

External links

''The Bellevue Gazette'' website

Ohio Community Media
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