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ToquiNotes: Recalling a Short-Lived Bridgeport Event and Seeking Information and Photos from the Past

Posted on October 05, 2024

I am not sure when it started. I am not sure when it ended.   But I do know that the old “Penny a Pound” e...

ToquiNotes: Trying to Solve City Restaurant Dilemma from the 1980s that Continues to Stay Up in the Air

Posted on September 28, 2024

Somewhere between the mid-1970s and 1988, a piece of Bridgeport nostalgia disappeared into thin air. Okay, it actually did...

ToquiNotes: Diamond of a City Restaurant No Longer in Business that Paved Way for Many More Today

Posted on September 07, 2024

Today, if you live in Bridgeport or Harrison County, and you’re craving Mexican food you don’t have to go too far. Jus...

ToquiNotes: One of State's Top Educational Positions Quietly and Effectively Held by Rose Audia Rossana

Posted on August 31, 2024

On May 25, 2017, ground was broken on the new Johnson Elementary School that would – a little more than a year later –...

ToquiNotes: Recalling James Matthew “Jim” Ash's Life and His Wonderful Legacy of Decency and Kindness

Posted on August 24, 2024

Bridgeport lost a good person recently. It was on August 12 to be exact when James Matthew “Jim” Ash took his last bre...

ToquiNotes: Jerome Axton Among First in Country Set to have Johns Hopkins University Surgical Procedure

Posted on August 17, 2024

Between 2014 and 2020, Bridgeport’s Jerome Axton was piling up some pretty big numbers. Had it been for something on t...

ToquiNotes: Into History, WWII, and Assisting with Our Veterans? Upcoming Event in City Checks All Boxes

Posted on August 10, 2024

Getting calls from my friends about something they have witnessed that might be newsworthy is not unusual. Getting one...

ToquiNotes: Looking Back to Only Time in 46 Years of Business the Doors to The Canteen were Closed

Posted on August 03, 2024

Editor's Note: This blog ran in September of 2020 and is being reran with the announcement of a new restaurant with the na...

ToquiNotes: Lessons from Pap Jiggs, Coach Shields have Rick Johnson Ready to Return YMCA to Heyday

Posted on July 27, 2024

Bridgeport’s Rick Johnson has had access to a family farm all of his life. In fact, there are roughly 130 pristine a...

ToquiNotes: A Meadowbrook Mall National Chain Too Good to be True Brings the Goods in Short Existence

Posted on July 20, 2024

It was a little harder to tell back in the print media days – prior to most news being posted online – when you had a...

ToquiNotes: As Former Mayor Timms Bids Farewell to Bridgeport, Impact has Him on City's Mount Rushmore

Posted on July 13, 2024

In my roughly three decades of covering Bridgeport, I have talked about one of my choices of a person I encountered du...

ToquiNotes: The Passing of a Long-Time Main Street Business Owner and His Kindness Decades Ago

Posted on July 06, 2024

As soon as I saw the name, I knew who it was. I am certain, however, had anyone mentioned my name to him over the last...

ToquiNotes: Bridgeport's Viola Derosa Still Wonderful after 100 Years of Giving, Caring, Loving, and More

Posted on June 29, 2024

There was a milestone event in Bridgeport almost a week ago today. And it was a Bridgeport woman who has lived in the...

ToquiNotes: The Blogger's Choice as the Most Missed Store in the Long History of Meadowbrook Mall

Posted on June 22, 2024

There is a fascination with new business coming to Bridgeport. Personally, I think it’s a good thing that the co...

ToquiNotes: Dr. Mike Hess Might Just be Mike Hess if Not for a Phone Call to His Mother in the Fall of 1981

Posted on June 15, 2024

It was in the early part of the 1980s, the fall of 1981 to be exact, and not long after Mike Hess had graduated from Bridg...
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