“The New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC)” by Tim Randall What would be undeniably fatal to many miles of undeveloped forests and countless ecosystems in Maine? Central Maine Power’s “The New England […]

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 Krista Nadeau By Supreme Court of the United States – Supreme Court of the United States (Source 2), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=55329542 My mother showed me how to never back down—she had […]

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 […]