By Gargoyle Staff | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Hurricane season is in full swing as this semester starts. Luckily we were spared from this season’s first major hurricane, Irene. However that doesn’t mean the threat is gone.
By Eliza Jordan | gargoyle@flagler.edu
My foot was heavy on the gas pedal as I complained about the cost of heart-worm medicine. Why though? So stupid and selfish — this medicine allows my dog to live.
I thumped my fingers one by one to the beat of the melodies blaring from my car. I drifted back onto US1 as the craving of caffeine crept up on me. Coffee coffee coffee.
For Richard Glover, who worked as a firefighter in New York City for 26 years, anniversaries are bittersweet.
Even though Glover and his wife, Janet, retired to Palm Coast, Fla., five or six years ago, the wounds of Sept. 11, 2001, have not yet healed.
By Amber James | gargoyle@flagler.eduA black curtain. That is what Rachael Horn compares the mosquitoes in her yard in St Augustine to. Florida spends about $160 million on mosquito control, and mosquitoes in the state are a fact of life.
The fine arts major knows it. “I brave the mosquitoes to go outside,” Horn said.
The Gargoyle staff won 10 awards this past year for everything from features on homelessness to news stories about bullying to opinion touching on veterans issues. In fact, in one year the online newspaper won more awards than it has in its entire history.
By Tiffanie Reynolds | gargoyle@flagler.edu When Belltower Books hired Jessica Solomon, all she thought she would be getting back was money for her books next semester.
The 21st century has a Woodstock that isn’t named “Woodstock” — its name is “Wanee.”
The spirit of Suwannee park was thick and moist in the air — a stale smell of home clung to Wanee Music Festival’s grounds as I took a deep breath and watched everyone pass me by on their own time and in their own mind.
By Caroline Young | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Day one of whale spotting with the Marineland Right Whale Project- it was a chilly, nebulous February morning. I took a windy bike ride to the St. Augustine pier and thought for certain the whale-spotters would cancel because of the weather.
But I was five minutes early and the last to arrive. When I walked up to the group of older people with raingear and binoculars, there was no sign of plans changing.
By Alex Bonus | gargoyle@flagler.edu
I feel wrong taking a cookie from a homeless man, but Tim “Dusty” Brown makes it seem ordinary.
He’s lost everything. His family. His job. His health. Misfortune haunts him. Despite trying to get back on his feet, injuries from a car accident stall his progress.
By Michael Newberger | mnewberger@flagler.edu
Nick Waters* is your typical college student. He hits the beach with friends, goes to parties, lives in a nice house he rents out with two friends, and begrudgingly goes to class. But Waters also struggles with something not a lot of others face: addiction to Oxycodone.