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One city, four counties: how Bellevue’s county lines affect taxes, voting and courts
Bellevue sits where Huron, Sandusky, Seneca and Erie counties meet. Your address decides where you vote, which auditor values your home and…
SundayNov. 152026
Huron · Sandusky · Seneca · Erie counties
Diane Kessler
Editor, The Bellevue Gazette
Diane Kessler is the editor of The Bellevue Gazette. She assigns and edits local coverage and writes about Bellevue city government, local history and the county lines that run through town.
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Local News
Bellevue’s citywide Community Reinvestment Area: how the property tax break works
Every parcel inside the city limits falls within a Community Reinvestment Area, which can exempt new construction and renovations from higher property…
People & Profiles
Marcy Kaptur, the Toledo Democrat who became the longest-serving woman in Congress
Kaptur has represented the Lake Erie shoreline since 1983. Her district has changed shape several times, and so has the politics around…
People & Profiles
Rutherford B. Hayes, the president who came home to Fremont
The 19th president spent his last years at Spiegel Grove, 20 minutes from Bellevue. His library there was the first presidential library…
People & Profiles
John Kasich’s eight years as governor, and the choices still shaping Ohio towns
From Medicaid expansion to cuts in local government aid, decisions made in the Kasich years still show up in Bellevue-area budgets.
Community
Around old Bellevue: how a crossroads became a railroad town
Ohio's first railroad reached Bellevue in 1839. Interurban cars, grain merchants and a giant freight yard followed.
People & Profiles
Before Standard Oil and Florida, Henry Flagler sold grain in Bellevue
The future oil and railroad baron spent part of the 1850s in Bellevue in the grain and distilling trade. His Ohio years…
People & Profiles
Jim Tressel trades the sideline for the lieutenant governor’s office
The former Ohio State and Youngstown State coach became Ohio's lieutenant governor in February 2025 after Jon Husted left for the Senate.
People & Profiles
Amy Acton, the doctor who led Ohio’s pandemic response, runs for governor
Acton became a household name during the 2020 daily briefings. In January 2025 she announced a Democratic campaign for governor.
Community
Flat Rock Care Center families push back on a call to shrink large care homes
A disability rights group's push to move residents into small community settings worried families of the 34 young people living at Flat…
News
U.S. EPA collects samples at 14 sites in the Eastern Sandusky County cancer cluster area
Federal crews began testing soil, water and air at old dumps and industrial sites between Bellevue and state Route 19. Results are…