Melanie Creamer

Staff Writer

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.

Feature Obituary, Life & Culture, News

Feature obituary: Joan Worrey, Portlander with big heart and desire to help

by Melanie Creamer April 1, 2015October 21, 2015

The mother of seven gave generously to others and volunteered for years at an alcohol and drug detox center.

Feature Obituary, Local & State, News

Feature obituary: John Arsenault Jr., 81, longtime bus driver for Cumberland/North Yarmouth schools

by Melanie Creamer March 26, 2015October 21, 2015

John Arsenault Jr., a longtime bus driver for the Cumberland-North Yarmouth school department, died Monday after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was 81. Mr. Arsenault joined the school department in 1963. His bus route was based in North Yarmouth. He drove two generations of students to schools in Cumberland and North Yarmouth over […]