History Blog

Posted on November 09, 2025

This photo is from the 1971 Bridgeport High School football season and shows a bonfire taking place outside of the fi...

Posted on November 02, 2025

See anyone you know? These are the seniors from the Bridgeport High School 1961 football team. According to Hug...

Posted on October 26, 2025

Anyone know these young ladies? It is believed to be the members of the 1963-64 Bridgeport Junior High School cheerle...

Posted on October 19, 2025

This advertisment is from the mid-1990s when Hills was still a beloved member of the community a provided its a...

Posted on October 12, 2025

Although the exact date of this photo is unknown, it is showing a Bridgeport Pop Warner youth football team from deca...

Posted on October 05, 2025

This photo, perhaps from the 1960s, shows a legendary Bridgeport High School coaching staff for football. Top r...

Posted on September 28, 2025

This photo is from the 1971 season and it shows Phil Nicewarner (10) going in for a touchdown as Steve Stout (42) tra...

Posted on September 21, 2025

This picture taken from the Bridgeport High School 1995 Ki-Cu-Wa yearbook shows Mr. and Miss BHS for the 1994-95 scho...

Posted on September 14, 2025

Coach Randy Thornton is shown holding up a photo of what appears to be three muddy Indians football players while leg...

Posted on September 07, 2025

This is a photo from the 2004 Bridgeport High School yearbook showing the 2003 Indians volleyball team. Those p...

Posted on August 31, 2025

This is a photo from the 1970-71 Bridgeport High School Sports Banquet. Shown in the photo, from left, is Larry Burne...

Posted on August 24, 2025

This photo shows a slightly different version of Main Street in 1984. At this time, Dairy Queen was located where Eas...

Posted on August 17, 2025

Bridgeport's unofficial historian, and author of this blog, Richard "Dick" Duez has said he has spent 50 years lookin...

Posted on August 10, 2025

The Bavarian Inn, shown here featuring its beef stew lunch special, occupied this familiar barn-shapped...

Posted on August 03, 2025

Although not certain of the date of this photo, it is of the exterior of The Coffee Shop situated on the corner of Center...

From the Bench: As 2025 Postseason Nears...

Since everyone is offended about everything, allow me to preface what you are about to read with a disclaimer. I say t...

Posted by Jeff Toquinto
Time Travel: A 1971 Pre-Homecoming Bonfi...

This photo is from the 1971 Bridgeport High School football season and shows a bonfire taking place outside of the fi...

Posted by Dick Duez
It's Happening: Bridgeport Elementary St...

Halloween festivities are behind us, and autumn is moving into the rearview mirror. As our focus shifts to the Christm...

Posted by Julie Perine
ToquiNotes: The True Story on Bridgeport...

Editor's Note I: This blog ran more than three years ago. Although not a derailment, the recent train collision wi...

Posted by Jeff Toquinto
Off the Shelf: Ways to Help Your Communi...

If you are looking for ways to help the community, the library is a drop-off location for a few different causes, and we a...

Posted by Angela Spatafore
The Grapevine: Breanna Starkey Talks abo...

Editor's Note: This week we have a guest writer submitting a story. When Blogger Rosalyn Queen was speaking with Breanna S...

Posted by Rosalyn Queen
The Cyber Beacon: If You are Wondering, ...

Think your inbox is just a mailbox? Think again — it’s the front door to your digital life, and most of us lea...

Posted by Joe Earley