The SMCC Beacon

  By Garrick Hoffman Working Man Transformed Directly out of high school, Mike Michaud followed his father and grandfather’s footsteps and began working at the Great Northern Paper Company mill in his native town of East Millinocket, Maine. Almost thirty years later, upon seeing the nearby Penobscot River become abjectly polluted with “so much sludge… Read more

The City of Music and Dreams By Erik Squire This is the final installment of my extraordinary trek across Europe. I hope the reader has enjoyed reading about my adventures, as it was an eye opening experience for me, one that I will never forget, and one I have enjoyed sharing a small slice of… Read more

By Maisarah Miskoon Working as a Community to Battle Hunger, Poverty, and Malnutrition Orono, ME – The Maine Hunger Dialogue conference was held on University of Maine’s Orono campus on October, 16th and 17th. Institutions from all over the state, including Colby, University of Maine Presque Isle (UMPI) and Ford Kent, came to learn from… Read more

By Alexander Bessey  A few weeks ago the Midcoast Campus held it’s aptly named “Welcome (Back) Barbecue”. I say that the event was appropriately titled because there were of course the familiar faces of semesters passed, as well as an encouraging number of new and interested faces joining the Midcoast Campus festivities. There was the… Read more