by Clayton Hoyle With the switch to online learning, many students have decided to take a break until in-person classes are more readily available. The decisions people had to make about this […]

by Clayton Hoyle Late last month, culinary arts professors at Southern Maine Community College were shocked to find a moose on campus while on their way inside in the twilight of the […]

By Clayton Hoyle “We have the spirit of the nation basically on the line, the character of the next president also on the line. People who don’t vote now— I can’t even […]

Story & photographs by Tamiya Joseph, contributor   I have been doing photography for the last two and a half years. I have always been a curious person. Photography for me is a […]

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 […]

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. […]

by Celina Simmons It’s crazy to think that my last semester at SMCC is coming to an end and even crazier to think of when the next time will be that I […]

by Jody Goodman When I hear the names Nora Ephron, Nancy Meyers, Meg Ryan, or Tom Hanks, my heart immediately warms and my mind goes to a happy place full of beautiful […]

by Morgan Dyer It’s with sadness and pride that I’m going into our last week of production with the SMCC Beacon! This is it! In the fall the Beacon will become a […]