Councilors unanimously support development of the trail from Sebago Lake to Portland’s East End.
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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Two firefighters arrested
The Westbrook department’s image takes more hits as two men are charged with off-duty crimes and a third is accused of harassment.
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3 Westbrook firefightersplaced on leave
WESTBROOK — Two Westbrook firefighters, including one with a 1983 felony robbery conviction, were arrested last week and placed on administrative leave. Another fireman who is accused of harassing a Portland social worker was suspended. Richard Dorr, a call firefighter, was placed on unpaid leave after his arrest on June 22. Dorr faces charges of […]
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Feature Obituary: Dorothy Cousins, 74, retired from National Semiconductor
LIMINGTON – It wasn’t long after talking to Dorothy Cousins’ six children that the family’s 1957 Willys Jeep entered into the story. Their father, Alton Cousins, bought the Jeep from a laundromat company and used it for his plumbing business. The children would pile into the Jeep and sit on toolboxes and pails for a […]
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Franco festival sees low turnout
Fewer than 2,000 attend a scaled-back La Kermesse, dismaying organizers and longtime supporters.
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La Kermesse festival ends today with dismal turnout
Organizers of the La Kermesse festival say financial problems and indictment of its former president this month drew one of the worst turnouts in its 28-year history.
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Peaceful send-off for an Outlaw
Police were prepared for trouble, but said all went well at the service in Old Orchard Beach and the clubhouse in Dayton.
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A place where peace is possible
Seeds of Peace camp begins a new season of bringing teens together to resolve conflicts person-to-person
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Ottawa earthquake shakes parts of Maine for seconds
A Portland office building is evacuated briefly but no injuries are reported.
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Tremors from Canada quake felt in Maine
The Intermed medical office building on Marginal Way in Portland was evacuated after workers felt the building shake.