By Darcy Pope Hi everyone! This issue I’ll be talking about a few things like stocks, entrepreneurship, and news in the business world! In the last Business Club meeting we focused on our […]
Not Quite Ready: Bullet to the Brain
By A.S. Kinsman Not many people can take a bullet to the head and live to tell about it. 54-year-old Scott Fraley of Raymond, Maine, was ice fishing on a frozen lake in West […]
Science Watchroom
By Jason Glynn I must issue a slight apology; the last installment of this probably could have easily been placed in the Op&Ed section. I should have focused more on debunking […]
Crime 101 and Beyond: Brink’s the Perfect Crime
By Kyle Scholes On the night of January 17, 1950 a bank named Brink’s was robbed of over 3 million dollars in checks, money orders, cash, and other securities by 8 men […]
The Road to Uniontown Via SMCC
By The Beacon Sports Staff After 2 years of being hosted by Central Maine Community College and New Hampshire Technical Institute, the YSCC Elite 8 post-season tournament returned to the Hutchinson Gymnasium […]
Oh Freedom! The Civil Rights Act of 1964: Then and Now
By Jennifer Lague Roughly 50 years ago, Lyndon Johnson signed into legislation the Civil Rights act of 1964 a landmark piece of civil rights legislation that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, […]
The Banyamulenge Tribe at risk
A Documentary Film in Progress By Charles Ishimwe The Banyamulenge tribe is a minority tribe in the Democratic Republic of Congo. There are more than 250 tribes in Congo similar to the […]
Confessions of a New England Vice Hawker
by Patrick Doyle My first job was washing dishes at a Mediterranean place while in high school – I was fired after skipping work around Thanksgiving to lay on a floor for […]
Memorable Sports Facts: February 18, 1988
By The Beacon Staff The reason why [quadruple-double] is such a hard thing to accomplish is because it requires a player to be completely dominant on both ends of the court without […]
Let’s Rethink This (?)
By Richard Sawyer Someone who is likely to be to be drafted into the NFL has come out as gay. Does this matter? No. All that matters is if the offensive tackle can […]
The SMCC Beacon 