NEW HIRES Odette Thurston joined HeadInvest as senior vice president and portfolio manager in its private wealth management team. Thurston brings more than 30 years of experience in the financial advisory industry. She currently serves as vice chair of the Maine Island Trail Association. Amanda Swart joined Fontaine Family – The Real Estate Leader […]
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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Betsy Parsons, 65, English teacher in Portland who advocated for LGBTQ youths
She helped found GLSEN Southern Maine and was instrumental in creating about 90 gay-straight alliance groups in high schools across Maine.
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Maine Audubon announces new hires, promotions
NEW HIRES Maine Audubon announces new hires: Tracy Hart was hired as a wildlife ecologist. Hart brings more than two decades of experience in wildlife conservation and environmental education. Melissa Kim was named director of communications and marketing. Kim was most recently the editorial director at Islandport Press. She previously worked in […]
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Chase Custom Homes hires project manager and director of its new child care center
NEW HIRES Chase Custom Homes in Westbrook announced two new hires. Karissa Guay was hired as director of The Playhouse Child Care Center in Gray. Guay brings more than 12 years of education experience. The Playhouse is expected to open this fall. Nick Moulton was hired as a project manager. Moulton brings […]
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Maine Medical Partners announces new hires
NEW HIRES Maine Medical Partners announces the following new hires. Marie Caldwell, M.D., joined MMP – Endocrinology & Diabetes. Caldwell brings experience from the University of North Carolina Hospitals, where she completed her residency and served as chief resident and endocrinology fellowship. Scott Statman, M.D., joined MMP – Hospital Medicine. Statman […]
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Rutherford named executive director of Frannie Peabody Center
NEW HIRES Mike Lodato joined Bristol Seafood as vice president of sales. Lodato comes to Bristol from Diversified Communications, where he worked for 22 years and most recently served as executive vice president. Alyssa Keating joined Portland’s Whitten Architects as a designer in July. She holds a master’s degree from Roger Williams University and currently […]
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Munroe promoted to COO at Port Property Management
NEW HIRES Samantha Dahmer joined Port Property Management as as its new human resource coordinator. Dahmer previously worked for Woodland Moving and Warehouse Inc. as director of human resources. CES announces new hires. Charles Reeves joined the firm as a senior project manager in the engineering department. Reeves previously served as public […]
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Feature obituary: Michael Simpson, fixture of a South Portland family hardware store, 41
Simpson was a devoted father and longtime employee at the paint counter at Shoppers True Value Hardware in South Portland.
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Diversified Communications announces 10 promotions
PROMOTIONS Ryan Kanteres became a partner and principal at Scott Simons Architects. Kanteres, of Portland, joined the architecture firm in 2012. He has more than 15 years of experience with sustainable design and composite wood technology in building design. Diversified Communications announced the following promotions. Brittany Banville was promoted to registration manager. Banville […]
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Rino Nadeau, retired maintenance worker at General Dynamics in Saco, 73
He was a well-respected member of the 12-step recovery community in Biddeford/Saco.
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