The wreckage of the 1946 Taylorcraft plane was found at 6 a.m. today in a wooded area in Harrison.
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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Windham officer no longer on force
Sgt. Michael Denbow, who opposed plans for regional dispatching, was put on leave in June.
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Still diving to endanger
A near-fatal accident prompted outrage in 2009, but little has changed at Salmon Falls Bridge
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County center to start taking Windham emergency calls
Windham will switch to regional emergency dispatching on Monday. Town officials say the change will likely speed up responses to emergencies. The town’s 911 calls are now answered by Westbrook’s dispatch operation, then routed to dispatchers in Windham. Town Manager Tony Plante said the change will send calls directly to the Cumberland County Regional Communications […]
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Windham officer in dispatch dispute ‘no longer employed’
Sgt. Michael Denbow was put on paid leave after he accused a town councilor of bias in a vote to eliminate the town’s dispatch service and contract with the regional dispatch center.
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Smiling Hill Farm’s owner sees tomato greenhouse as ripe opportunity
The owner of Smiling Hill Farm in Westbrook wants to develop a 20-acre greenhouse and grow millions of pounds of hydroponic tomatoes. Warren Knight and his partner, a produce distributor in Connecticut, are proposing to use waste heat from the nearby Calpine power plant to maintain growing temperatures in the greenhouse. Knight, who has yet […]
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Gorham seats open on Town Council, School Board
Candidates must collect at least 25 signatures but no more than 100 signatures of registered voters in Gorham, and submit them to the town clerk’s office by Sept. 20.
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School on schedule for 2011 opening
The new Gorham school will allow a long-awaited reconfiguration of elementary grades.
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Group seeks vision for city of Westbrook
A task force charged with creating an in-depth plan for the city draws from a diverse pool.
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Police: No proof Westbrook bar overserved before OUI fatal
Interviews with witnesses indicate Jana Pooler didn’t appear to be visibly drunk before she left Profenno’s and was killed in a crash.