Mr. Bouthillette worked for the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard for more than 30 years.
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: Steven Onos, 47, death a ‘big loss’ for community, schools
Mr. Onos served six years on the South Portland School Board and was instrumental in the planning to renovate four elementary schools.
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Feature obituary: John Stanhope Sr., 92, policeman, Marine, loved to square dance
Mr. Stanhope was a longtime longtime patrolman for the Portland Police Department who rose above many hardships.
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Feature obituary: Teresa Beane, 56, longtime nurse, mother of four
When Mrs. Beane was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2003, doctors gave her three months to live. She lived 10 more years.
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Feature obituary: Corinne Mann, 97, renowned Maine gardener
The ‘Daylily lady of Kittery Point’ was also an exceptional landscape artist and loving wife.
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Feature obituary: Theresa Ketchum, 77, mother of six, late-blooming lawyer
Theresa Ketchum was a former special assistant attorney general for Maine, who also ran a private law practice.
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Feature obituary: Timothy Flaherty, 69, commander of Portland American Legion
Mr. Flaherty helped coordinate the city’s Memorial and Veterans Day parades for many years.
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Feature obituary: Joan Bennett, 89, campground owner, musician, loving mom
Bennett, who grew up in England, owned Maine’s Yellowstone Park Campground for the past 40 years.
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Feature obituary: Theresa Sawyer, 49, defied cystic fibrosis
Sawyer was one of Maine’s oldest residents to have lived with cystic fibrosis and competed in numerous road races.
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Kennebunk mourns loss of longtime local barber
Jim Rogers, 68, who was described as an icon and a legend, died suddenly Wednesday from a stroke.