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ToquiNotes: After Serving Harrison and Surrounding Counties for 47 Years, Doctor's Scrubs Head to Closet

Posted on May 31, 2025

Calling a community home your entire life is generally not a bad thing. Taking care of others in and around that same...

ToquiNotes: Surgeries Pile Up, Cancer Battle Ongoing for RCB Senior Landen Jaggie - and You Can Help

Posted on May 24, 2025

All things being standard, Landen Jaggie would have been walking for graduation with the Robert C. Byrd High School Cl...

ToquiNotes: As You Prepare to Graduate, Take a Picture Perfect Moment to Tell Your Friends Thank You

Posted on May 17, 2025

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

ToquiNotes: A Behind-the-Scenes Life that Resulted in Saving Countless Lives with an Immeasurable Impact

Posted on May 10, 2025

Not everyone that makes a difference in the lives of thousands of people ends up seeing their names regularly in the m...

ToquiNotes: A Beautiful Legacy of Laughter, Love and Smiles that Helped to Define the Life of Tom Fogg

Posted on May 03, 2025

My first meeting with Tom Fogg? My age and, subsequently, my memory do not give me a clear picture. Here...

ToquiNotes: Dr. Kelly Nelson's $2 Million Dollar Silver Anniversary City Party with Roots from Talk with Wife

Posted on April 26, 2025

It was one of probably thousands of conversations Dr. Kelly Nelson and his wife Debra have had during their many years of...

ToquiNotes: Bridgeport's Jerome Axton Standing Taller than Ever as He Battles to Adjust to Life of Normalcy

Posted on April 19, 2025

For those who believe you can hear a smile, let me tell you about exhibit A. That exhibit would be a phone call I made...

ToquiNotes: Unraveling the Mystery of Long Deceased Restaurant among First Offering Now Common Option

Posted on April 13, 2025

I still remember going there. I was maybe 7 or 8 years old. It was located in Clarksburg, in the area where Sheetz is...

ToquiNotes: How One Local Man's 15 Minutes of Fame was Being in Movie "The Silence of the Lambs"

Posted on April 05, 2025

You may know him. And if you’ve been at a sporting event or even a news-related event in Bridgeport, Harrison County a...

ToquiNotes: After 43 Years and 10,000 Surgeries, End is Here for Dr. Doyle Sickles as He Puts Scalpel Down

Posted on March 29, 2025

Those jokes about listening to your in-laws probably are not all grounded in truth. If you know the story of Doyle Sic...

ToquiNotes: Devastating Few Weeks of Loss as Area Sees Several Giants in Prep Sports, Teaching Pass

Posted on March 22, 2025

There is an old wives’ tale that death arrives in related groups of three. In the last couple of weeks, it proved to...

ToquiNotes: Promise of No Arrest in B&E Case from 2013 Proves True, but Identified Suspect Likely Dead

Posted on March 15, 2025

In my years of dealing with Bridgeport Police Chiefs, going back to Jack Clayton and to today with Mark Rogers, I have...

ToquiNotes: A 1980s, 1990s Food Pit Stop with Right Price Tag as Well as an Unlimited Amount of Grub

Posted on March 08, 2025

Forgive me, this week, if my memory is a bit off base when it comes to another old-school flashback to a restaurant, o...

ToquiNotes: Former City Firefighter, Wife Dealing with Health Issues, Multiple Tragedies, in Need of Help

Posted on March 01, 2025

For a large part of his 53 years on this earth, former Harrison County resident and Bridgeport and Stonewood Volunteer...

ToquiNotes: Is Mall Expanding? Barnetts Run Road Extension? Earth-Moving Project Question Answered

Posted on February 22, 2025

It is partially hidden in plain sight. But those who have seen the work have asked for months just what is taking plac...

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EDITOR'S NOTE I: Updated with information from Dr. Theodore Kress. Thank you Dr. Kress. When...

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