NEW HIRES Beth Taylor joined Legacy Properties Sotheby’s International Realty as assistant vice president. Taylor, of Falmouth, will work from Legacy’s Portland office. She brings experience as a sales and marketing professional for a Fortune 50 Company. PROMOTIONS Melanie Cooper was promoted to corporate vice president and member of the board of directors […]
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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Lunt hired as project manager for Chase Custom Homes & Finance in Westbrook
NEW HIRES Steve Lunt joined the Chase Custom Homes & Finance in Westbrook as a project manager. Lunt has more than 23 years in the construction field. He was previously a carpenter in Brunswick doing renovation projects and working on custom homes. He brings experience with historical rebuilds and energy efficient dwellings, including LEED Silver-rated […]
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Feature obituary: Joan A. Smart, 76, child caseworker who had big impact on kids’ lives
‘She worked long days and on weekends. Whenever she was called upon, she would go,’ said her daughter Robyn Oliver.
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United Way of Greater Portland welcomes 6 new board members
NEW HIRES Jeremy Cluchey joined The Nature Conservancy in Maine as director of strategic communications. Cluchey brings 15 years of communications and marketing experience, most recently at Maine Audubon. He lives in Bowdoinham. Jocelyn Runnebaum was also hired as fisheries project manager. Runnebaum previously worked for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game […]
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MacLeod joins Katahdin Trust as VP, commercial services officer
NEW HIRES Karyn MacLeod joins Katahdin Trust in Scarborough as vice president, commercial services officer. MacLeod brings 22 years of experience in the financial services industry. Most recently, she served at Bangor Savings Bank in Portland as vice president, commercial relationship manager. She lives in Scarborough. Sam Hornblower joined Dufour Tax Group in Portland. […]
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Feature obituary: Don Clark, 63, devoted father and skilled handyman
When Jaime Vallee and Shylah Clark were kids, they would go to Biddeford Pool with their father to fish for striped bass. Don Clark would stick a handful of poles in the sand as his girls splashed in the waves and waited for the rods to bend. “It was super exciting seeing these huge ocean […]
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cPort Credit Union announces four promotions
NEW HIRES Pat Thatcher joined Legacy Properties Sotheby’s International Realty in Portland. Thatcher was previously a top agent for Sotheby’s International Realty on Cape Cod from 2009-2019. PROMOTIONS Paul Charpentier was named vice president and academic dean at Southern Maine Community College following a nationwide search. Charpentier has worked at SMCC for 24 […]
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Sutherland Weston Marketing Communications hires three
NEW HIRES Merrill Read joined Boyle Associates in Portland as a project scientist in its consulting practice. Read is a recent graduate of Colby College. Heidi DeBlock, M.D., joined Maine Medical Partners – Hospital Medicine. DeBlock brings experience as a critical care attending in the surgical and neurosciences intensive care unit at […]
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Feature obituary: Christopher Hyde, longtime classical music reviewer for Portland newspapers, dies at 81
He wrote for the Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram for nearly 20 years and In 2015 started his own blog.
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Here are the top high school seniors in Cumberland and York counties
Bridgton Academy Cole Smith, valedictorian. Brunswick Daniel Lyons, Logan Gillis, Benjamin Baumgarte, Alexandra Morse, Erin Coughlin, Lea Scrapchansky, Eliza Rudalevige, Nicholas DaRosa, Christopher Tucker and Cameron Daly. Cape Elizabeth High School Lauren Abrahamsen, Barbara “Tess” Dolan, Samuel Dresser, Rohan Freedman, Meghan Gerety, Valedictorian; Marianna Godfrey, Casey Goodwin, Alison Ingalls, Tessa Celeste Kilgore, […]