North Windham needs sewers to attract and keep businesses and cope with nitrate levels, they say.
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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Feature Obituary: Charles Tuttle, 62, gifted musician, ‘very giving and honest’
PORTLAND – Charles “Chris” Tuttle of Peaks Island, a gifted bass guitarist who opened for big-name acts such as Barbara Mandrell and B.B. King, died Saturday. He was 62. Mr. Tuttle burst into the music scene in the 1970s, playing bass guitar for the Cobble Mountain Band, which opened for Mandrell. As a member of […]
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Windham Police identify man hit by a car on Saturday
Michael Charette, 45, of Portland, was struck by the car on River Road on Saturday afternoon.
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Charged in off-duty crimes, Westbrook firefighters lose jobs
Richard Dorr and James Gammon had been on leave since their arrests.
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Ex-fire chief sues Westbrook over dismissal
Daniel Brock says the city violated its charter when the mayor publicly dismissed him in a speech.
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Autopsy performed on Portland homicide victim
After a man is fatally shot at 55 Allen Ave., neighbors say the area has become home to late-night fighting.
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Outstanding in their field
POWNAL – Four-year-old J.T. Pound and his brother Drew, 2, peeked over a fence at Upper Farm Alpacas on Sunday to get a closer look at the inquisitive animals. “We came here to learn a little more about alpacas and to entertain the kids,” said their father, Kris Pound, who raises geese and chickens at […]
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Police investigate homicide on Allen Avenue
Police identify the victim as a 22-year-old from New York.
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Frats face uncertain future in Gorham
The seizure of the Phi Kappa Sigma house over back taxes and code violations prompts a proposed town fraternity ban.
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A brush with the creative process
The public watches painters on site as part of an effort to raise funds to preserve town lands.