The SMCC Beacon

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 a club – an extracurricular activity for students to cover stories on or off their campus and give them hands on experience in… Read more

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 hitting us and we’re grieving. Collectively. We are not used to this kind of collective grief in the air.” David Kessler, author, public… Read more

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 all wish that the pandemic never happened. But we can’t just change something because we want to; that’s not how it works. Granted,… Read more

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 have a drink. Passing DeMillo’s, I spotted an open spot on the corner and gently slid the car into park. Walking up the… Read more

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 our lives have been changed, turned upside down, and inside out there just might be a little hope and a little bit of… Read more

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 the doors at work and saw all my students, not knowing it would be the last day seeing all their beautiful faces. It… Read more