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Inside Eastern Medicine
By Heather Seidel | gargoyle@flagler.edu Dr. Steven Shomo gives an insiders perspective on the benefits of eastern medicine.
Flagler College professor paddles 1,515 miles, sets record
An overgrown burial ground forty miles from civilization was not the most auspicious spot to meet a soon-to-be record-holder.
Top 10 Places To Run in St. Augustine
Much of St. Augustine’s beauty is found downtown, but that’s all most people ever see.
St. Augustine’s travelers: The things they carry
On Washington Street in St. Augustine, men and women sit outside the St. Francis House. They sit close to the things they carry, in fear that they can quickly be taken away.
Unaffected Vision: Free to see beautiful, opens Friday at the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum
This First Friday Art Walk, eight students from The Arc of St. John’s will share a piece of their lives through photography. The show, Unaffected Vision: Free to see beautiful, is a display of photographs taken by physically and intellectually disabled adult students.
Why I dive: Reclaiming food’s value and joy
It’s hard to see the value in food when you walk past aisles and aisles of it. The overwhelming volume of boxed, canned and processed items strip food of its value. There is more than one reason that local farmer’s markets, community gardens, heirloom fruits and vegetables and seasonal foods have gained in popularity. Meeting your food in this way creates a connection. It adds value that is lost in the industrial, consumerist agricultural system.
Interim Director brings new vision to St. Francis House
The desk that Judy Dembowski occupies at the St. Francis House is new to her. In a few short weeks, however, she has made it her own, down to her characteristic coffee mug.
State Road 313 threatens St. Augustine’s Twelve Mile Swamp
A few miles northwest of Downtown St. Augustine is a pond shaped like a tear. If the Florida Department of Transportation gets their way, it will be sliced in half by a six-lane highway known as State Road 313.
The hopes and risks of starting a small business: ECO Ride
St. Augustine is the fertile ground which cultivates the growth of many unique small businesses. One particular local business, ECO Ride Taxi, is one.