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ToquiNotes: Former Meadowbrook Mall Fountain Not Seen for Decades, and You'll Not Believe Where it Is

Posted on February 08, 2025

During my conversation with former Meadowbrook Mall Property Manager Marcello Lalama for last week’s blog on Gor...

ToquiNotes: A Meadowbrook Mall Regional Business that Departed in 1990s Appears to Still be Operating

Posted on February 01, 2025

At times, I get a little bit wordy on my blogs. For those who that may be a concern, no worries this week.  ...

ToquiNotes: Hoping for Another Local Grocery Store? Here's One Still Taking Requests to Come to Cities

Posted on January 25, 2025

When it comes to a grocery store coming to Bridgeport, everyone – it seems – has something to say. And what they have...

ToquiNotes: A Multi-Week Span that Sees Passing of Two Kind Men who Made Their Communities Better

Posted on January 18, 2025

In roughly three weeks, two local giants in their respective communities passed away. And while one had their hub of o...

ToquiNotes: Recalling the Life of a Man who Stared Down 70 Surgeries and Lived Life as Giant He Was

Posted on January 11, 2025

As far as names go, if you do a Google search on Michael Wallace you are going to produce a lot of matches. Thousands...

ToquiNotes: Settling a Debate Locally in Place Across the Nation and Across the Globe Shortly After 1891

Posted on January 04, 2025

Sometimes this blog tackle serious subjects involving the health of individuals, a group needing help, or something of...

ToquiNotes: Revisiting Story of When a BHS Student Realized Spirit of Christmas and Santa Claus are Real

Posted on December 21, 2024

EDITOR'S NOTE: This blog first ran prior to Christmas 2016. This is one of the most beautiful stories I've had the hon...

ToquiNotes: SRO Jamie Hamrick Staring Down Breast Cancer with Backing of Family, Friends, and Faith

Posted on December 14, 2024

Bridgeport School Resource Officer Jamie Hamrick knows how to deal with problems. As a police officer, she is trained...

ToquiNotes: The Most Popular Bridgeport High School Staff Member Turns 70 and Not Slowing Down at All

Posted on December 07, 2024

What if I told you the most popular staff member in the Bridgeport school system just turned 70? What if I told you th...

ToquiNotes: The Short History of What this Blogger is Calling the Greatest Fast Food Hamburger of All Time

Posted on November 23, 2024

What if I told you the greatest fast food hamburger that I’ve ever had was right here in Harrison County? What i...

ToquiNotes: Recalling Fondly a Favorite City Food Pit Stop That's Now Officially Part of Bridgeport's History

Posted on November 16, 2024

Long before there was a proliferation of food choices on the national chain front up and down the Interstate 79 Corrid...

ToquiNotes: After 40 Year-Run in Law Enforcement, Robert Matheny Set to Sign off as Sheriff for Last Time

Posted on November 09, 2024

It was nearly eight years ago, on Dec. 29, 2016, to be exact, that Bridgeport’s Robert Matheny was standing in the cou...

ToquiNotes: Bridgeport Municipal Complex's Dark Side May Not be Known, but No One Trying to Hide It

Posted on November 02, 2024

A lot of people, or actually most people, are not aware of a very dark side to the City of Bridgeport. I have seen it...

ToquiNotes: After 57 Years, Business Owner on Main Street Goes Strongly to Retirement Armed with Faith

Posted on October 26, 2024

Roughly 57 years ago, a young man – at the ripe age of 23 – took over a business on Main Street in Bridgeport and open...

ToquiNotes: My Proof of the Power of Prayer and the Conduit Facilitating it in Bridgeport's Lora Rohrbough

Posted on October 19, 2024

Editor's Note I: This blog ran in early 2019. It is being ran again in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. P...
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