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, Local & State, News

Feature obituary: Lois Gowen, 86, longtime secretary at Deering High School

by Melanie Creamer September 26, 2014October 21, 2015

Mrs. Gowen is remembered as a patient, kind and giving woman who made a difference in many lives.

Local & State

Feature obituary: Michael Crowley, dedicated Saco call firefighter, dies at 49

by Melanie Creamer September 24, 2014December 16, 2014

He is remembered as a devoted family man, a hard worker and an excellent father.

Local & State, News

Feature obituary: Catherine Stratford, 90, devout Catholic, loving mother of six

by Melanie Creamer September 20, 2014December 16, 2014

She worked as a secretary for Diocese of Portland in the 1970s, then became the activities coordinator at the Father Hayes Center, now known as St. Brigid School, retiring in 2001.