Dana Falsetta joins the Animal Welfare Society’s Canine Training Department.
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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Stauffis hired as CFO at Partners Bank
NEW HIRES Partners Bank hired Jennifer Stauffis as chief financial officer for the bank’s main office in Sanford. She comes to Partners Bank from First Seacoast Bank in Dover, New Hampshire, where she most recently served as vice president, treasurer and finance officer. Before that, she worked at Service Credit Union in Portsmouth, New hampshire, […]
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Gouwens hired as executive director of Ski Maine Association
NEW HIRES Ski Maine Association has hired Dirk Gouwens as the organization’s new executive director. Gouwens has served as eastern regional director of the US Ski Team and executive director of the New York Ski Racing Association for the past eight years. In those roles, he worked with several Maine ski areas hosting national and […]
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Maine Heritage Policy Center announces name change
NEW HIRES University Credit Union has hired Bob Williams as vice president of finance and technology. He brings more than a decade of accounting and financial management experience at several large entities, including an insurance agency, a CPA firm, a financial institution and a nonprofit community action agency. Sonya Alyea joined the medical team […]
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Marjorie Wiggins elected as a practice representative to nursing board
BOARD APPOINTMENTS Marjorie Wiggins, chief nursing officer at MaineHealth, was elected as a practice representative to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing board of directors. Wiggins has more than 30 years of experience in nursing practice and leadership, and has been an active supporter of many of AACN’s signature initiatives. PROFESSIONAL […]
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Drummond Woodsum hires two attorneys
NEW HIRES Drummond Woodsum hired Elizabeth Mooney at its higher education and litigation practices. Before joining the firm, she spent 10 years at WilmerHale in Boston. Leah Rachin joined Drummond Woodsum as a shareholder. She brings experience in municipal, land use and employment law. She has served as the attorney for numerous […]
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Morton, executive VP and regional manager of Farm Credit East, retires after 40 years
NEW HIRES Allen Insurance and Financial announced that Kellie Doolen joined the company as a scanning associate and receptionist. Doolen, of Lincolnville, brings more than 15 years of retail management and customer service experience. She is based in the company’s Camden office. PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION Emily Hejlik, director of sales and marketing at Octagon […]
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James Banks, longtime Portland school board member and savior of the Expo, dies at 80
He is credited with saving the Portland Expo by shifting responsibility for it to the city school board when other officials had proposed demolishing it about 40 years ago.
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Ouellette named president and CEO at University Credit Union
NEW HIRES Randall May was appointed interim assistant director for Konbit Sante Cap-Haitien Health Partnership’s U.S. operations in Falmouth. He previously served as director of international operations for the National Alliance of State & Territorial AIDS Directors. Prior to joining NASTAD, he worked for 13 years as director of programs for the Frannie Peabody Center […]
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Defendify announces 2 hires
NEW HIRES • Defendify in Portland announced two hires. Wendy Bouton has joined as head of business development. She brings extensive experience building high-performance teams and exceeding multimillion-dollar quotas. She previously held a key role in leading business development and customer engagement at Covetrus. Jim Albright was hired as head of marketing. He […]