By Marissa Marinan| gargoyle@flagler.edu

Living just north of the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind in St. Augustine, Gina Burrell has a feeling of insecurity for what will happen to her home if the school is granted eminent domain power.

“I have been living in our house for 18 years, my husband built our house and I am almost 80 years old and I don’t want to have to move,” Burrell said. “I mean if they decided they wanted my piece of property I would have to go, so it gives you that feeling of insecurity and it’s not right.”

By Rebecca Snowdale | gargoyle@flagler.edu
The Flagler College Department of Theatre Arts has kicked off the month with its spring musical “Kiss Me, Kate,” a Tony-Award-winning playwright with music and lyrics by Cole Porter.
“Kiss Me, Kate” …

By Adam Hunt | gargoyle@flagler.edu

It was the first thing David Espinosa looked at when choosing a college.

The 19-year-old Flagler College student never doubted the validity of the U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges rankings.

“The rankings were very important to me,” he said. “When I received my SAT results I used them to find schools that would accept me. I naturally trusted what I read.”

By Teaira Hayes | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Since early 2011, permits have been requested and approved to prepare downtown King Street for the latest addition to the neighborhood: a Subway restaurant. When a franchise moves into town, smaller businesses face the plight of losing clientele. But local restaurant owners like husband and wife team, Jane and Peter Kavanagh, said they have little to fear.

“I don’t think it will be a problem for business,” said Jane Kavanagh, owner of Flavors Eatery on King Street. “Our main targets are locals and we have a lot of local support.”

By Phillip Sunkel | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Photo by Tobin Voggesser
Yonder Mountain String Band, the headliners of this years Suwannee Springfest, will be making a quick stop at Freebird Live this Sunday.

For the second year, The Gargoyle and DOW Advantage will publish Anthology, the best of journalism, public relations, opinion and photography at Flagler College.

By Tiffanie Reynolds | gargoyle@flagler.edu

On Feb. 11, the Boys and Girls Club of St. Augustine worked with Flagler College Society of Professional Journalists for their annual Mission: Media event.

Mission: Media gives children of the Boys and Girls club a hands-on experience of a day in the life of a reporter, with the guidance of members from Flagler College Society of Professional Journalists. This year, the club went to the St. Augustine Alligator Farm, where everyone picked an animal as the subject of their newspaper article. Below are the completely pieces, categorized under the animal written about.

By Sarah Williamson | gargoyle@flagler.edu

600 couples gathered Sunday at Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museum for a world record attempt of the largest wedding vow renewal ceremony.

Aside from the occasional asthma, Flagler student Corey Christian, 22, is in perfectly good health. So it came as a surprise when he found it harder and harder to breathe, even in his own home.

“When I was just laying in my bed and I’d have the window open and like a fan on me, just trying to get some air and I was out of breath” he said “I couldn’t stop coughing, I would actually vomit from how much I was coughing.”

By Tiffanie Reynolds | gargoyle@flagler.edu

The corner of Cordova and Cuna will be getting a new look, but it will not only be for communication students.

Plans to demolish 31 Cordova, the current communications building, which is beside The Floridian restaurant, are already in motion, with a new two-story academic building replacing it. Still in the conceptual stages of planning, the vision for the academic building includes 12 classrooms, several faculty offices, a studio Mac lab and a screening room that will seat 108. The cost is estimated to be $5.5 million.

By Ryan Buffa | gargoyle@flagler.edu

After two of the largest advocates of women’s healthcare, the Susan G. Komen Foundation and Planned Parenthood, made amends after a potentially harmful decision, local branches believe it is an opportunity to strengthen relationships and refocus on important issues facing women’s healthcare.

“The experience of this week is going to renew and strengthen relationships on a local level,” North Florida Planned Parenthood CEO Staci Fox said. “It’s going to open up a new avenue for us to work together…”

With the surge of pressure from lawmakers and internal opposition, the world’s largest breast cancer organization, the Susan G. Komen Foundation, reversed a controversial decision on Friday that would have pulled funding from numerous Planned Parenthood projects.

By Amber James | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Graphic by Amber James
Think you might have room for dessert after dinner tonight? Think again.

Although many people can look at a nutrition label and see just how much sugar it takes to make a treat sweet, there is a cloaked reality with bitter consequences. It’s called hidden sugars.

By Frank Mahoney | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Flagler College was host to a new type of political movement on Jan. 27. The Americans Elect East Coast Bus Tour parked its bus on Sevilla Street and informed students of a new way that people can get involved in politics.

“Americans Elect is the nation’s first ever nonpartisan direct presidential nominating process,” David Arreola, the South East Regional Director for the Americans Elect College Team and the Campus Leader for Flagler College, said.

By Tiffanie Reynolds | gargoyle@flagler.edu

When Reddit and Wikipedia blacked out in protest of SOPA and PIPA earlier this month, James Phillips decided to black-out too.

The freshman political science major changed his Facebook profile picture to completely black with the words, “This has been removed in violation of SOPA,” and he blacked out the pages that he moderates on Reddit, which is part of a larger network. Several of his friends also protested, using the same completely black image as their profile picture.

By Michael Newberger | gargoyle@flagler.eduBy

Hours before the Republican debate in Jacksonville, Florida Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich told the grassroots organization Veterans For A Stronger America that he feels the most pressing threats against the United States are recent advancements in Chinese military strength and radical Islam.