She was driving home from a night out with friends when her car went off the road and struck a tree.
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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Gorham Savings Bank hires Dimitri Michaud as its new COO
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Maine Lives Lost: Artist’s family grieves ‘hero’ after long battle with COVID
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Teresa Sanborn, 70, longtime Portland educator loved reading and giving books to kids
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Dana Totman, president and CEO of Avesta Housing, announces plans to retire
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Teresa Bendokas, loving mother and senior director at Crossroads, dies at 42
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HM Payson hires N. Curtis Jordan as a portfolio manager
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Briana Murphy, 24, a passionate and caring adventurer
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Caroline Raymond joins Maine Behavioral Healthcare as senior director of community services
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