• SMCC Tech Talk .

    Use Windows Safe Mode, before you throw your Computer out the window By Robert B Wiseman Imagine going to your computer and turning it on, only to realize something is wrong. The computer keeps stalling and crashing every time it tries loading to the desktop. What do you do? Well before you smash it against… Read more

  • The Science Watchroom

    Creation vs. Evolution: The Great Debate…Still? By Jason Glynn How did we get here? This is a question that has plagued the minds of men and women since we could think. There are two sides that offer drastically different answers to this: creationism and evolution. One answer comes from a book, original author unknown, which… Read more

  • Music Club…Not Dead Yet!

    Nicholas James Miller Hello, fellow students, and readers of The Beacon. My name is Nicholas James Miller, early in the fall semester of 2013, my first semester of college, I eagerly wrote an article explaining what the Southern Maine Community College Music Club is about. First, its a club that some of my fellow students,… Read more

  • Eggs and Issues Business Forum

    Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce By Jennifer Lague The monthly Eggs and Issues Conference run by the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce (portlandregion.com) took place Thursday, February 6th at the Holiday Inn by the Bay in Portland. The speakers featured for the February meeting were: Eileen Skinner, the President and CEO of Mercy Health System… Read more

  • One Selfie Too Far

    By A.S. Kinsmen Everyone remembers when Obama took a selfie at the funeral of Nelson Mandela a few months ago. It was rude, it was crass, and it was, above all, disrespectful. But it appears that Obama isn’t the only one who is taking pictures of himself at inappropriate times. A high school student in… Read more

  • Poetic License

    Poetic License

    by Patrick Doyle stFor the first time in Poetic License history, a featured instead of one of my own. This is not to account for any laziness or writer’s block on my part, but as a means of getting someone else’s work out there. It’s funny, I kind of like it not being my own… Read more