Westbrook officials hope to negotiate a resolution before the civil trial gets under way on Sept. 13.
Melanie Creamer
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.
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Westbrook council tables vote on Pike Industries after hearing
Officials hear opposing views on a proposal to let Pike continue mining its rock quarry.
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‘Virtual High School’ filling real gaps for schools
As schools face increasing economic pressures, online courses are getting more popular.
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Antiwar rally by Veterans for Peace caps convention
At least 300 gathered in Portland on Sunday to call for an end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Champions of chili: Granddad’s recipe a hot find for local cook
Sunday’s sanctioned chili cook-off shows what love, family and the right chili powders can do.
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Hollis quake goes almost unnoticed
A small quake hit early this morning, the U.S. Geological Service reports.
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Three seriously injured in Gorham crash
Two women are in serious condition and a young boy is in critical condition after an accident this morning on South Street in Gorham. Debra Martinson, 45, of Standish was seriously injured after the car she was driving veered off the road and went into a ditch. The accident occurred around 10:20 a.m. near the […]
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Man, teen killed in Casco accident
Two people were killed in an accident on Route 11 in Casco early this morning, according to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office. A deputy sheriff attempted to pull over a 1993 Infinity for speeding and having no lights on around 1:14 this morning on Route 11. The vehicle pulled over, then took off at a […]
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Rollover near mall causes delays on I-295
State Police say the accident, combined with construction on the turnpike, has caused traffic to be backed up to the Congress Street exit.
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Idexx still plans sizable expansion
A $50 million project is on hold, but lab officials say ‘a new building’ is coming