• Keep up with Local Politics

    Hello everyone! Here’s a short list of some things that are going on in the Greater Portland area and beyond that hopefully will help you catch up on the local political situation, which includes an upcoming referendum election. Voting is only really that painful if you have to do all the prep work the day… Read more

  • SoPo Block Party

    YOU ARE INVITED TO TRADEMARK’S END-OF-SUMMER NEIGHBORHOOD PARTY! The Trademark has been in the neighborhood since last fall, but they have not had the chance to properly introduce themselves . They’re making up for lost time with a block party! And what’s a proper block party without shutting down the street? That’s right, they’re shutting… Read more

  • Maine Printmaking Creates a Rise in Tourism 

    Maine Printmaking Creates a Rise in Tourism 

    Maine printmaking began in the 1880s when the Portland Society of Art was founded. The most popular printmaking method used in Maine today is monotype. “There are a lot of monotypes and monoprints. There are some traditional, some Stamp monotypes which are relief prints, there are several woodcuts and wood block reductive, there are cyana… Read more

  • Brightspace: A Closer Look at Brightspace Features

    Brightspace is the new learning platform that Southern Maine Community College just started using in the Summer of 2020. It replaced the previous platform SMCC was using (Blackboard) and was implemented system wide; all of the other Maine Community Colleges are also using Brightspace. By now, most of us are pretty familiar with the interface… Read more

  • A Chat with SMCC’s Women’s Coach

    A Chat with SMCC’s Women’s Coach

    By Blake Moran We sat down with Ethan Wells, coach of the women’s soccer team at Southern Maine Community College, to talk about bringing the reigning division championship team back on the field amid concerns about COVID. Wells, the assistant director of Athletics, previously worked at Post University as an assistant sports information director and… Read more

  • Women’s Soccer Game Changed

    Matt Richards, Associate Dean of Student Life at SMCC announced this morning that with the impending rain forecast for tonight, the athletic department have decided to push the start time of today’s women’s soccer game against Central Maine Community College from 4pm to 3pm, in hopes of beating the storm. Come stop by and support… Read more