ToquiNotes

Posted on July 24, 2021

There is not a movie for what happened, and with all due respect to Miracle on 34th Street, there was a miracle here i...

Posted on July 17, 2021

He was not exactly sure what year it was or even the time. Jason Nicholson does remember one thing for c...

Posted on July 10, 2021

Editor's Note: This story ran nearly four years ago. The arcade mentioned, Tilt, is no longer at the Meadowbrook Mall,...

Posted on July 03, 2021

When Bridgeport’s Chris Cleghorn broke into the sales business in radio back in 1997, he was a rookie with West Virgin...

Posted on June 26, 2021

It is hard sometimes to quantify impact. Sometimes you just do not know if you left a place better than when you got there...

Posted on June 19, 2021

With no disrespect to any of the other staff members at Bridgeport High School, the most popular member of the school’...

Posted on June 12, 2021

It is very likely that 43 years ago there was no one that predicted Jim Broslawsky would be announcing his retirement...

Posted on June 05, 2021

While so many of us grew up getting school items and other necessities at Hill’s Department Store, there was another s...

Posted on May 29, 2021

Editor’s Note: This is a slightly modified version of my blog that has ran every year on graduation weekend...

Posted on May 22, 2021

If all Bridgeport’s Mike Martin ever could lay claim to in his life was that he and his wife Kim were responsibl...

Posted on May 15, 2021

So what do Clarksburg's Dennis Mazza and actors Robert Duvall, James Cann and Francis Ford Coppola and the City of Bri...

Posted on May 08, 2021

When I was a kid growing up in North View, it wasn’t all that unusual to get with a few friends and catch a bus...

Posted on May 01, 2021

This is not a blog to say the Meadowbrook Mall is dying. It is not a blog to say Meadowbrook Mall is thriving. ...

Posted on April 17, 2021

It was Dec. 18, and it was supposed to be a good day for Sami Wilson. The 2019 Bridgeport High School alumna was headi...

Posted on April 10, 2021

I may have the dates wrong, but it seemed to be the fall of 1995 and I was working – for the first time –...

From the Bench: BHS State Title Alum, Fo...

Mario Bombardiere remembers the feeling. There were just eight seconds left and he watched, nervously, as Scott Lewis...

Posted by Jeff Toquinto
Time Travel: Reading About 1952 Firemen'...

You may have to look close, but there is plenty of information on the 1952 Bridgeport Firemen's Fair. Two things no l...

Posted by Dick Duez
Off the Shelf: Modern Mrs. Darcy Blog Gr...

According to the online blog, Modern Mrs. Darcy, the day I am writing this (July 19th) is the 200th day of the year.&n...

Posted by Sharon Saye
ToquiNotes: Recalling The Miracle on Joh...

There is not a movie for what happened, and with all due respect to Miracle on 34th Street, there was a miracle here i...

Posted by Jeff Toquinto
The Grapevine: A July Garden Recipe and ...

July certainly heralds in the beginning of the harvest of our gardens. What we started as little seeds has blossomed...

Posted by Rosalyn Queen
Healthy Faces: Meet Kristi Goode

Presented by Harrison County Health Games - The Encore, formerly Healthy Bridgeport, today's Healthy Faces blog featur...

Posted by Julie Perine