Dana Blanton of Sweet City Cupcakes quit her corporate job of 18 years at Publix and started her own small business, taking it from only 12 flavors of cupcakes to more than 60. They are thriving in St. Augustine, Fla., despite many obstacles when opening.
By Katie Garwood | gargoyle@flagler.edu Since she was a child, Sister Diane Couture has been an artist. But it wasn’t until later on in her life that she discovered stained glass, and subsequently chose that as her specialty. As a sister of the Sisters of…
By Jared Talbot | gargoyle@flagler.edu In late March, the Flagler College theatre department will be putting on the classic Greek play known as ‘Medea.’ The ancient Greek tragedy was written by Euripides and is based on the myth of Jason and Medea and was first…
By Mallory Hopkins | gargoyle@flagler.edu Bo Sterk is a local beekeeper and president of the St. Johns County Beekeeping Association. He is also involved in Bees Beyond Borders, an organization that teaches beekeeping in the Caribbean. Sterk has been keeping honeybees for 25 years and…
By Mallory Hopkins | gargoyle@flagler.edu Mallory Moyer is a Floridian musician. She lives in the Tampa Bay area some of the time and the St. Augustine area some of the time. She can be found singing and playing guitar at local venues in those areas…
By Katie Garwood | gargoyle@flagler.edu For the past several years, there’s one issue the Student Government Association has heard more from students about than any other on campus. And last week, SGA unveiled their plans to address that issue–interhall visitation. More than 100 students came…
By Katherine Lewin | gargoyle@flagler.edu Rethreaded, located in Jacksonville, Florida, employs only female victims of human trafficking and the sex trade. Florida is the third highest state in the U.S. for reports of trafficking and Jacksonville is a hub for both perpetrators and their victims….
By Katie Garwood | gargoyle@flagler.edu As a musical theater student at Ithaca College, Kevin Venardos didn’t envision himself getting into the circus business. Growing up in New Jersey, Venardos frequented Broadway shows and set his sights on a career in theater. In 2000, Venardos—who, at…
By Katherine Lewin | gargoyle@flagler.edu On July 20, 2017, shortly after midnight, Keegan Von Roberts, a young black man, was shot and killed in front of his house by his white neighbor, Michael Centanni. Centanni was never charged, protected under the self-defense argument. The case…
By Katherine Lewin | gargoyle@flagler.edu When Shahla Latifi was an 18-year-old pharmacy student living in Kabul, Afghanistan, it was arranged that she would marry a 50-year-old Afghan man living in Jacksonville, Florida. She was excited to leave a violent Afghanistan for a man who seemed…