• Upcoming Article: The Rocket

    SMCC welcomes another new feature to the campus: The Rocket, a compost contraption that will be put to use by horticulture and culinary students to turn food waste into compost. According to the company website TidyPlanet.co.uk, “The Rocket Composters are designed to recycle food wastes from catering or food service on site. By recycling these wastes on site the… Read more

  • Dining With Dierdree

    By Dierdree Glassford Major? Hello everybody! Hello readers! This summer has been full of so many adventures, from visiting family in Canada, to swimming in the local watering hole, to getting together with friends and family. All of it simple, relaxed, and always accompanied by food. Now this summer I got the chance to eat… Read more

  • Autumn Shows and New Releases

    By Garrick Hoffman If you’re an audiophile, bibliophile, cinemaphile, and livemusicphile such as myself (indeed, that I just coined that last term), you’ll be ecstatic to know what kind of entertainment is to unfold this fall season. That is, if you’re into the same music, books, and movies as me. So here’s what you can… Read more

  • Beyond SMCC and Still a Seawolf

    By The Beacon Sports Staff With the start of a new academic year, new dreams and aspirations for success on the baseball and softball diamonds, the soccer pitch, the basketball court and even golf links begin to formulate in the minds of the student athletes. There has to be a certain level of satisfaction that… Read more

  • Midcoast Campus Welcome BBQ is Abuzz

    by Rosemary Harkenrider-Crossman On Thursday, September 3rd, while students, staff and faculty enjoyed a welcome back barbeque on the South Portland campus, listened to the Proftones, comprised of SMCC professors, and marveled at the ocean’s spray students on the Midcoast campus in Brunswick enjoyed a barbeque of their own, accompanied by the Blue Angels buzzing… Read more

  • Student Senate Synopsis

    By Erik Squire Education Major The Student Senate conducted its second meeting of the semester last Wednesday, and it went straight to the last minute. We covered everything from the Senate budget for the fiscal 2015-16 year and approved three finance requests. We discussed an official Senate Training, and swore in two new members (Jeremy… Read more