• Nursing Club Warming Hearts

    by Celina Simmons On Tuesday the 11th, the Nursing Club set up shop to warm people’s hearts with a DELICIOUS bake sale. Photographed is Heather Emmon and Trisha Domenie, members of the nursing club. They raised a total of $80 from the sale and all the remaining goodies were donated to a local food pantry!… Read more

  • Cultivating Culture, Creating Success

    By Trisha Domenie Another semester is underway for the nursing program at SMCC. For nursing students, that means a lot of reading, a major exam within the first three weeks, mild panic attacks, and lots of coffee. It also means the coming together of students to help support one another through what would otherwise be… Read more

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  • Get to know the Artist: Mercer & his music from Portland, Maine

    by Timothy Randall Mercer is a local musician based in Portland, Maine and works as a cook at Gilbert’s Chowder House in Portland on Commercial Street. If you’ve heard Mercer’s music, you may have heard him perform at, “Monday of the Minds,” at the Flask Lounge in Portland, Geno’s Rock Club, at the Bayside Bowl,… Read more

  • Converting a Physical Machine to a Virtual Machine

    by Ali Adan For numerous years, the Beacon has run a Tech Talk column, for which Howard Burpee’s Senior Seminar class in Computer Technology would write the columns. Professor Burpee retired last spring and our source of Tech Talk columns dried out as well. As the Beacon wanted to keep Tech Talk alive, we have… Read more