(Continued from last week) York won it’s sixth straight and 21st win of the season in decisioning Ada 47–41 in the district opener. In the hectic final minutes of play with the score knotted at 38–38, Larry Bowersox put the Panthers up by two. Ada tied it at 40 seconds later. Jerry Bogner put York up for good […]
The impending consolidation of York School into the Bellevue School District was still one year away in 1967. The merger would mark the end of a rich basketball tradition that began Dec. 9, 1921. York played its first interscholastic game at Thompson losing 29–7. C. Huber is credited with scoring York’s first field goal. In fact he scored […]
In the last century, 1939, to be exact, we scanned some of the prices the shopper paid for groceries. The A and P store, then located at 120 East Main St., offered these bargain prices — Pillsbury’s Best Flour, 24 ounce bag, 75 cents; Post Toasties or Kellogg’s Corn Flakes, two large packages, 17 cents; peanut […]
(Continued from last week) The front page of The Bellevue Gazette from Jan. 27–28, 1978, the day of the “great blizzard of 78” gave this vivid description of the storm: “The worst blizzard in memory of most has stunned Bellevue and Northwest Ohio with its destructive fury. The area is just beginning to dig out from under […]
The winter of 1977–78 will be remembered by those who lived through it. Who will ever forget the Great Blizzard of Jan. 26–27, 1978? It was described by then Gov. James Rhodes as a “killer searching for victims,” and by weathermen as the grandfather of all Ohio storms. So much snow was dumped during the […]
Continued from last week A most encouraging note in Bellevue’s acute housing shortage happened when four businessmen banded together to construct and offer for sale 10 homes in the choice residential district on Euclid Ave. and Hoffman St. The group, which includes the three DeLuca brothers, Joe, Jake and Eurico (Pete), and John Schaefer, have plotted 11 […]
(Continued from last week) The following year in 1948 the chamber of commerce industrial committee submitted their report at their annual meeting. Homer Crecelius presided at the yearly meeting. He told of the planned expansion of Bellevue industries during 1948 may result in the hiring of 380 new persons. The report said the Nickel Plate Railroad […]
By Bill Oddo Gazette Columnist Former Bellevue Gazette Sports Editor Kevin Travis is back in the news. After working for the local newspaper for a decade, from 1991 to 2000, Travis left to pursue his sports writing in the Carolinas. Travis recently retired from sports writing, got married and now resides in Missouri. His latest endeavor […]