The graduate of Freeport High School died Friday when his motorcycle collided with another vehicle on Desert Road.
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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Feature obituary: Gordon Strout, 70, energetic teacher and gifted theater director at Gorham High School
He was remembered by colleagues as a popular educator who brought energy and enthusiasm to the classroom.
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Feature obituary: Richard B. Smith, 87, cycled from Seattle to Brunswick when he was 70
Mr. Smith worked as director of the Brunswick Parks and Recreation Department.
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Feature obituary: Sandra Featherman, visionary former UNE president, dies at 84
Featherman was chief architect of the 1996 merger of UNE and Westbrook College in Portland.
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William P. Soule, 90, retired South Portland insurance agent
The lifelong resident also started three travel agencies.
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Feature obituary: Wayne Buhelt, 80, retired from Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office
He was inspired to go into law enforcement by a trooper he met after surviving a car accident in the mid-1960s.
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Feature obituary: Wendell G. Large, 65, Portland attorney and ‘true gentleman of the bar’
He was a founding partner of the law firm Richardson, Whitman, Large & Badger.
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Feature obituary: Robert Thomas, Edgecomb artist inspired by Maine landscapes, time spent in Beirut
Mr. Thomas worked as a media relations specialist before turning to painting after moving to Maine in 2003.
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Feature obituary: Robert Thomas, Edgecomb artist inspired by Maine landscapes, time spent in Beirut
Mr. Thomas worked as a media relations specialist before turning to painting after moving to Maine in 2003.
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Feature obituary: Kimmerly Maxfield-Fearon, 58, beloved police department assistant, mother
‘She may not have been a sworn officer, but she was one of us. She was someone I could count on every single day,’ said Falmouth Police Chief Edward Tolan.