Melanie Creamer

Staff Writer

Melanie Creamer is a news assistant, who's worked at the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram for nearly 16 years. She oversees various responsibilities from monitoring the news and business email addresses – to fetching old newspaper articles and photos from the archive.
She’s the face behind the popular business “On the Move” column, which appears in Tuesdays and Thursdays newspapers.
A compassionate and soft-spoken woman, Melanie is also the writer of the newspaper’s feature obituary. Many of her colleagues say she has one of the toughest jobs in the newsroom. She tells heart-breaking stories of love and loss. She listens as parents sob uncontrollably over the tragic death of their child. She writes touching stories about couples who have been married for 60 plus years, and then die within days or weeks from each other.
Melanie was the recipient of the Maine Press Association’s Unsung Hero Award in 2015.
A native of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, she graduated from Fitchburg State College in 2000 with a degree in professional writing. She lives in Scarborough with her fiancée and is a co-parent to two daughters.
Posted inLife & Culture

Hundreds walk for Ashley

by Melanie Creamer

Two months ago, 18-year-old Ashley Dubois was lying in a hospital bed, clinging to life after suffering injuries in a car crash on Cat Mousam Road.

On Sunday, with the help of a metal walker, Dubois led a group of about 350 people on the first steps of a walk to raise money to help with her medical expenses. The student-organized event, “Walk for Ashley, walk for hope” raised an estimated $17,000.

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