Westbrook residents told a special panel of their concerns about noise and vibration from the quarry.
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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Stolen truck pulled from canal
STANDISH — A pickup truck that was found submerged Tuesday in a canal off the Presumpscot River had been reported stolen Monday night from a hotel in Portland. No one was in the white-and-gold Ford F-150 with South Carolina license plates when it was pulled from the water Tuesday afternoon. “It’s a big relief,” said […]
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Harp seal draws crowd during stopover in Portland
PORTLAND – An adult harp seal that was spotted sunning itself Saturday in Back Cove marshland apparently has swum away, an official from the state’s Department of Marine Resources said Monday. The grayish and black seal drew dozens of spectators and caused drivers to pull over along Baxter Boulevard. The seal may have been a […]
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Crunch time in the Pike debate
Westbrook hopes a bio-tech firm can co-exist with a gravel quarry, but some say there’s no guarantee.
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Westbrook begins push to find compromise for Pike Industries
Westbrook officials will begin efforts today to broker a compromise between Pike Industries and the residents and businesses opposed to the company’s quarry operation in the Five Star Industrial Park on Spring Street. Mayor Colleen Hilton has formed a committee that will meet with businesses and residents to identify concerns about Pike’s operation and the […]