By Sam Coombs At this point in the year, Portland, Maine is a great small city to be in if you’re a sports fan. Portland has two professional teams under way as the […]
The Portland Sports Scene: Red Claws and Pirates get Underway
Today in Sports History: November 18th, 1985 Joe Theismann Career Ending Injury
By Sam Coombs It was Monday Night Football and the Washington Redskins were facing huge NFC rivals the New York Giants in a packed full stadium. The score was 0-0 and the […]
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SMCC Hoops Highlights: Vermont Tech Comes to Town
By Beacon Staff Women and Men’s basketball teams opened up the YSCC conference play this past Saturday afternoon when the Knights from Vermont Tech visited Hub gymnasium. The Lady Seawolves entered conference […]
SMCC Nursing Club in Action; Stopping Flu In its Tracks
By Jessica Cunningham On Tuesday, September 9th, the lobby of the Health Science Building was a buzz as the Nursing Club hosted the 2nd Annual SMCC Flu Vaccination Clinic. The Clinic was […]
Americans’ Obsession with the Ebola Outbreak: An Attempt to Allay Fears
By Richard Bigega When I was a little lad, Ebola was a few miles from home, just across the border in Kabare, one of the largest slums in Uganda. This suburb in […]
Your Brain on Exercise: The Wrap Up
By Jason Glynn This is the last installment of my summer experience working in a neuroscience lab at the University of New England under a Maine-INBRE (IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence) […]
Sailboats Beached
By The Beacon Staff After a fall that has been relatively quiet, weather wise that is, a Nor-easter visited the coast of Maine over the course of a few days, October 22nd […]
CCleaner: Making your computer run faster
By Ryan Plouffe Is your computer working slower than it should? Try using a free program called CCleaner also known as Crap Cleaner. There are two editions that an individual can choose, […]
20 years of Shawshank Redemption
By Garrick Hoffman Take a look at the IMDb Top 250 list on its eponymous website – a list dictated by users, not just critics or hierarchal IMDb staff – and at […]
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