By Jessica Spoto  This past Sunday The Beacon stopped by SMCC’s community garden (behind the Culinary Arts building on the South Portland campus) to catch up with Sodexo employees and SMCC students […]

  By Ivan Del Mar, Jack Gentempo and Ben Riggleman Saturday, April 22, wasn’t a typical Earth Day; it was a day of impassioned activism for the sake of science. Rallies held […]

The Beacon Staff Did you know that the Captain’s House is available for student use between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m.? It is a meeting place for many student clubs (including The […]

Photos and Artist Talk in the Learning Commons The Beacon Staff Christian Farnsworth has established a diverse and solid knowledge base that has informed his photography work adding wonderful insight into the […]

Ben Riggleman Attention, news aficionados! As of two weeks ago, the SMCC community has free online access to The New York Times. Simply go to http://tiny.cc/SMCCLibraryNYTimes, log into SMCC if prompted and […]

Let me start with a story: Dave was a practical young man. He’d known he was going to be a machinist ever since, at the age of eight, he saw “The Machinist,” […]

  As spring break rolls around, we all wonder what we are going to do. As students, we need to relax and just take a well-deserved break from school. Let’s take a […]

“I remember going to my grandma’s house … my grandma always did so much for us. Even when we were going through hardships or whatever it was, she would always make a […]

I came to the culinary arts by a long and circuitous route. The notion of considering a career as a food writer evolved by an even stranger set of circumstances. My life’s […]

Last semester, SMCC student Destinee Linscott created a large painting inspired by her friend Elizabeth “Liz” Corvese’s interest in narwhals. Narwhals are a type of Arctic whale remarkable for having a single […]