Cassidy Lee

1 month ago | wtvy.com | Cassidy Lee

DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) - Dothan Houston County Library Systems Director Chris Warren joined News4 to introduce the newest Chapter Chat Pick. This month, Warren highlighted Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig. Warren chose this book to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the signing of the American Disability Act into law. Sitting Pretty is a memoir told in a series of essays by Taussig, who was diagnosed with cancer as a baby.

2 months ago | wtvy.com | Ryan Dugger |Cassidy Lee

OPP, Ala. (WTVY) - Driving through Opp, you’re likely to see Laura Fernandez tending to her flower farm, Petaluma Gardens. Named for the California town she began her nursing career and met her husband, Petaluma Gardens’ flourishing fields are the product of a career change, research, and hard work. “I don’t really remember making a conscious decision that I was going to do this. I just know the next thing, I had a John Deere tractor and the land back behind you, I was plowing up,” Fernandez said.

2 months ago | wtvy.com | Cassidy Lee

DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) - The city of Dothan is known as the ‘Peanut Capital of the World’ because the majority of peanuts in the United States are grown within a 100-mile radius of Dothan. This hasn’t always been the case, before peanuts there was cotton. Until the 1920s when the boll weevil got a hold of the fields and left farmers in the South with destroyed fields and left farmers with little to no money. That was until Dr. George Washington Carver came into the picture.

Feb 16, 2025 | kfyrtv.com | Sarah Williamson |Cassidy Lee |Andrew Mcmunn

HARTFORD, Ala. (WTVY/Gray News) - Time has been very kind for an Alabama woman who celebrated her 106th birthday. Blanche Thomas of Hartford was born in 1919, ten years before the Great Depression. More than a century later, Thomas celebrated her milestone birthday surrounded by friends and family. While some people say the secret to a long life is to eat healthy food or to exercise, Thomas said her advice is much simpler.

Feb 16, 2025 | actionnews5.com | Sarah Williamson |Cassidy Lee |Andrew Mcmunn

HARTFORD, Ala. (WTVY/Gray News) - Time has been very kind for an Alabama woman who celebrated her 106th birthday. Blanche Thomas of Hartford was born in 1919, ten years before the Great Depression. More than a century later, Thomas celebrated her milestone birthday surrounded by friends and family. While some people say the secret to a long life is to eat healthy food or to exercise, Thomas said her advice is much simpler.