Wiregrass Living Magazine

01/19/2025

01/07/2025

Do you have a favorite local artist you’d like to play at Folklore? Tag them below!

10/06/2021

Dothan Leisure Services, along with the Jon Lee Foundation, are partnering to offer a beginner wheelchair basketball program, for individuals 18 years old and older, with a lower body impairment. The hope is to receive enough interest to form several teams, that could begin practicing on a weekly basis, in order to organize a league.

For anyone interested in participating, please contact the Doug Tew Therapeutic Recreation Center at 334-615-3720 for additional information.

06/04/2021

We wish him the best for his opportunity to represent Team USA in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. Swim fast! 🇺🇸

10/26/2020

Do you or your kids play video games? Then join Extra Life, an online grassroots movement working to help local kids through the power of play. Participants fundraise year-round and pledge to game with one goal - to improve the lives of sick and injured kids. Extra Life Game Day is Nov. 7! To learn more and sign up to play for Children's, visit https://bit.ly/2xzNKPg

08/18/2020

If you love “good news” then you don’t want to miss the upcoming issues of Wiregrass Living Magazine. We bring the stories of love, inspiration, people, and places that make the Wiregrass one of the greatest places to live. There is still time to reserve your advertising and subscriptions. Send us a message or call today!

08/17/2020

Vote for Emma.

08/10/2020

We appreciate how children use their talent and creativity to inspire and brighten the days of their peers. Check out how Cameron Mitchum of Geneva High School is sharing her talent in the post below. The future is bright. 😎

07/24/2020

Now accepting applications for 2 new positions!

We are advertising for a Virtual School Coordinator to handle all things related to our virtual school. The applicant must have a teaching certificate, be good with technology and have awesome people skills!

We are also advertising for 3 aide positions. These people will work with our nurses to provide basic first aid, diabetes care, and anything else health related. One will be located at the schools in Slocomb, one in Hartford and one in Samson. These positions for just for one school year.

If you like children and want to work in a progressive school system with great benefits, apply today!

Go to www.genevacountyschools.com to apply. Click on departments, personnel, and then Teach in Alabama.

07/24/2020

How cute are these?! Check out Spikes Wholesale in Geneva for some of the neatest finds in the area.

Kid masks, just arrived!
Your choice, just $2.50!

If you’d like to order and have it shipped, please message us on Messenger with your physical address, email address and which masks you’d like. There will be a minimum $5 shipping fee.

You can also call 334-684-3388 to order.

06/11/2020

She was a Wiregrass icon and a legend to Wiregrass Living Magazine. Our dear friend Ann Varnum has gone to be with the Lord. She wrote the very first article for us when we began publishing in 2003 and contributed hundreds of features throughout the years. Her last published article is printed in the current issue on Dr. Myland Brown. Her friendship, love and warmth will be missed and treasured forever. We send our prayers and deepest condolences to her family and all of those who loved her.

04/27/2020

Check out Big Red for Lunch or Dinner! Daily specials for Grill and Pizza specials. Our Curbside team members are ready to serve you!

04/09/2020

TROY seeking help to 3D print PPE for local medical facilities

TROY – Troy University faculty, staff and students are working together to utilize 3D printers to address the current shortage in personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers, and they need help from the public.

The Department of Art and Design, the IDEA Bank, the Broadcast and Digital Network and the Troy University Libraries, among other TROY representatives, are working together on the effort to 3D print needed items such as face shields, but they’re limited by the number of printers at their disposal.

“We’ve got five printers that are running 24/7 right now,” said Ed Noriega, a professor in the Department of Art and Design who is among those heading up the project. “The printing right now is painfully slow. What we’re looking for is people with 3D printers who can help us print more units. We’re doing a callout to our community to anyone with a 3D printer who is willing to help us produce PPE units.”

Amy Drinkard, a TROY alumna and registered nurse with Hospice Compassus in Troy, is serving as a liason to the local medical community.

Supplies are being distributed to local healthcare workers in an effort to determine the greatest areas of need.

“We’ve reached out to Troy Regional Medical Center, our local leaders and first responders,” Drinkard said. “Whether it be N95 masks, face shields or other needed PPE, our vision is to distribute where there is a need. Our goal for this is to get ahead of the curve and have the available PPE that our healthcare workers need to protect themselves and the patients they serve. Our city and community leaders have done an excellent job to ensure that we are well prepared and have supplies readily available during this crisis. This effort is to fill in the gap where needed. We would rather be over-prepared than under.”

Noriega said volunteers can print the items at home.

“Time is really of the essence. We’re good with them printing at home, just to be on call when we’re ready to make the bigger production run,” he said. “We’re not charging for these – this is not a situation where we’re planning on making money. Nobody’s getting compensated for this. We’re doing this to help.”

Once the areas of greatest need are determined, Noriega and his colleagues plan on ramping up printing efforts.

“This is cutting across all boundaries within the university,” said Tara Morelock, Development Coordinator for the Sorrell College of Business. “Our thoughts were let’s try to get some of this into production to maybe be a little bit ahead of it. We thought that if there was anything we could do to go ahead and start the printing process and bring together other people from the Troy community to make sure our area has the PPEs we need, then we should do that.”

Anyone with a 3D printer who would like to help this effort can contact Noriega at [email protected].

Currently, TROY individuals working on this effort include Noriega, Morelock, Television Operations Manager Ronny Taylor, Producer Jeff Herring, design student David Sanders and Dothan Campus Web Master Tory White.

University Libraries supplied three 3D printers for the effort.

“I was so glad Professor Noriega and his students decided to take this initiative on and eagerly agreed to let them borrow the 3D printers and have all of the printing material we had in the Troy Campus library,” said Dr. Chris Shaffer, Dean of Library Services. “This initiative is one of just many that demonstrates the level of caring for the community that is felt by Troy University students and faculty.”

Photo: Troy University student David Cole Sanders shows devices 3D printed by the Troy community for use by the medical field during the COVID-19 outbreak.

04/09/2020

This asparagus recipe is great for any meal, any time of the day. Jazz those stalks up and enjoy.