• Not Quite Ready: Bullet to the Brain

    By A.S. Kinsman Not many people can take a bullet to the head and live to tell about it. 54-year-old Scott Fraley of Raymond, Maine, was ice fishing on a frozen lake in West Gardiner with a friend when there was a loud bang, and then he felt a searing pain in the back of his head.… Read more

  • Science Watchroom

    By Jason Glynn   I must issue a slight apology; the last installment of this probably could have easily been placed in the Op&Ed section. I should have focused more on debunking the ‘science’ of creationism, but I couldn’t really find any real science supporting the theory. That issue is obviously near and dear to… Read more

  • Crime 101 and Beyond: Brink’s the Perfect Crime

    By Kyle Scholes On the night of January 17, 1950 a bank named Brink’s was robbed of over 3 million dollars in checks, money orders, cash, and other securities by 8 men wearing navy coats, shoes designed to make no footstep and, masks from a fictional superhero Mr. Marvel. 5 employees who had been bound… Read more

  • The Road to Uniontown Via SMCC

    The Road to Uniontown Via SMCC

    By The Beacon Sports Staff After 2 years of being hosted by Central Maine Community College and New Hampshire Technical Institute, the YSCC Elite 8 post-season tournament returned to the Hutchinson Gymnasium here on the SMCC campus. Women and men teams representing 9 different schools participated in the tournament, which is also billed as the… Read more

  • Oh Freedom! The Civil Rights Act of 1964: Then and Now

    Oh Freedom! The Civil Rights Act of 1964: Then and Now

    By Jennifer Lague Roughly 50 years ago, Lyndon Johnson signed into legislation the Civil Rights act of 1964 a landmark piece of civil rights legislation that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by… Read more

  • The Banyamulenge Tribe at risk

    The Banyamulenge Tribe at risk

    A Documentary Film in Progress By Charles Ishimwe The Banyamulenge tribe is a minority tribe in the Democratic Republic of Congo. There are more than 250 tribes in Congo similar to the number of languages spoken in the DRC. Many of the Banyamulenge tribe has been murdered since the tribe moved to the Congo in… Read more