• From Behind the Curtain

    By Jason Glynn Can you believe that we are 6 weeks into this semester already? Time flies when you’re having fun right? As college students, we can often find ourselves locked up in a room doing homework or studying for a test. However, that may not be the most effective method. As President Bush showed… Read more

  • Making their Mark

    A.S. Kinsman For anyone who’s traveled in the Greater Portland lately, they’ve noticed graffiti defacing and defiling, it seems, almost everything that resides within the zip code.Squiggly, balloon-like, colored, impossible to decipher and understand letters or markings litter the city. And it seems to be getting worse.   Problems with graffiti in Portland and South… Read more

  • 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