• Lady Seawolves Host Spaghetti Dinner

    By Beacon Staff Local patrons, friends & families were treated to healthy portions of tossed salad, spaghetti, with or without meatballs in tomato sauce, garlic bread and carrot cake. The dinner raised approximately $300-$400 in an effort to support the Lady Seawolves basketball.Alumni weekend for the SMCC basketball program kicked off their weekend festivities with a… Read more

  • Athletic Spot Lights: Jose Nouchanthavong

    By Sineah McGrady Four hours north of South Portland, sits the University of Maine – Machias gym, a few Saturdays ago it filled with the SMCC Seawolves basketball teams ready to square off against the Clippers. The women played first and finished with a win. The men followed hustling onto the court and ready to… Read more

  • The Extraordinary Adventures of a Couch Surfer

    By Erik Squire No, I’m not talking about what Tom Cruise did on the Oprah Winfrey show. There’s an amazing website for the low budget traveller called: couchsurfing.org. Couch surfing (CS) is a community made up of travellers and hosts. If you wanted to travel almost anywhere in the inhabited world, all you would have… Read more

  • Book Review: Francois Villon’s The Poems of Francois Villon

    By Patrick Doyle I’m a big fan of the risqué French poets . . . y’know, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Lautreamont, Verlaine. They all had visionary, oftentimes macabre, dazzling verses with a specific “moodiness” that I identify with. Also, their lives were an embodiment of something, some sort of instinctual nature that simply speaks to me and… Read more

  • Enough is Enough: the Death Penalty must Die

    Enough is Enough: the Death Penalty must Die

    By Richard Sawyer We have all heard the phrase “Eye for an eye” from Leviticus before. This is an age-old quote that is clearly older then the Bible itself. It is a statement that is ingrained in Western society and will likely continue to be for some time to come. Our justice system is built… Read more

  • We Be Burnin’ Not Concernin’

    We Be Burnin’ Not Concernin’

    By Erik Squire In the last edition of The Beacon, Richard Sawyer wrote on the pros of legalizing marijuana, his observations are not far off from what I believe. However for the sake of fairness, I do believe both sides of this controversial issue should be evenly represented. Here’s my earnest attempt at that. A… Read more