by Managing Editor, Tim Randall The Southern Maine Community College newspaper, The Beacon has been in operation for more than 35 years before becoming a college credit course. The Beacon began as […]

By Krista Nadeau “We feel the world has changed and it has. We know this is temporary, but it doesn’t feel that way, and we realize things will be different… This is […]

By Alexandra Griffin   Photo by Alayna Baldwin Dagnese. A lesson with kids and horses    Right now the pandemic is a subject that no one wants to bring up, and we might […]

by Bretton Niles Harris Above: “Old Port Alleyway” I stowed the Polaroids I’d just taken down by Casco Ferry and decided to cruise down Commercial Street looking for an inviting establishment to […]

By Clayton Hoyle It’s hard to think that there could be any good in what our world and communities have been so unexpectedly faced with in the past six months. Even though […]

Photo taken by Samantha Jacobs, showing how Jenny, preschool teacher, practices COVID protocols, six feet apart and wearing masks. By Samantha Jacobs It was seven in the morning, when I walked through […]

By Connie Clarkson “With our thoughts; we make the world.” Buddha  I remember thinking to myself, “This year is gonna be a rough one.”  When the pandemic first started, the lines at […]

By Anna Lise  When I first started college, I discovered my passion for American Sign Language. During my first class, I met my friend Nicole who has Cerebral Palsy. She uses Lofstrand […]

by Ayreal Ziegler Only a friend on social media? We’ve all done it. Added someone whom we didn’t know well or followed some celebrity we had little chance of actually connecting with. […]