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 […]
From Behind the Curtain
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Deborah Klotz: Traces at the Maine Jewish Museum
By Jennifer Connor Walking into Deborah Klotz’s recent show at the Maine Jewish Museum on Congress Street in Portland was like taking in a breath of fresh air. The light and energy […]
Radiology Program Acquires Essential Learning Tool.
Garrick Hoffman At the SMCC Mid-coast campus in Brunswick, there sits a GE Proteus x-ray unit with a value in the ballpark of $50,000 – $80,000. Manufactured in 2007, the machine provides […]
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