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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PublishedJune 14, 2012
Feature obituary: Daniel H. Fifield Jr., ‘stood up for anything smaller than him’
WEST BALDWIN – Daniel H. Fifield Jr. had a promising life ahead of him. He served nearly four years in the Army as a cavalry scout in Iraq and worked for the past year or so at Countryside Butchers in Cornish. He had plans to one day go to college to become a zoologist. But […]
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PublishedJune 12, 2012
Feature obituary: Anthony Fornisano, 82, family man, courthouse supervisor
PORTLAND – Anthony C. Fornisano told his wife and children last week that he would not live to see Father’s Day, this coming Sunday, or his birthday on July 30. For many years, the Fornisano family gathered on Father’s Day to celebrate him. And with good reason. He was a longtime maintenance supervisor at the […]
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PublishedJune 7, 2012
Feature obituary: Howard F. O’Brien, 61, respected attorney, world traveler, father
Though his work was an important part of his life, it was nothing compared with the love and devotion he had for his wife and their six children.
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PublishedMay 24, 2012
Feature Obituary: George Brett, 89, loved time in Maine outdoors with family
The Boston transplant’s love affair with Maine began when he attended the Birch Rock Camp in Waterford as a kid in the late 1920s.
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PublishedMay 23, 2012
Feature Obituary: Michael Macklin, 62, poet and teacher with ‘a love for learning’
A mentor to hundreds of students, he is mourned by Portland-area writers and the Waynflete School community.
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PublishedMay 22, 2012
Feature obituary: Susan Hludik, 61, Wells EMS director, adviser and friend
SHAPLEIGH – Susan Hludik, a dedicated paramedic who served as director of Wells Emergency Medical Services for more than 20 years, died Thursday after a brief fight against lung cancer. She was 61. Ms. Hludik worked as a paramedic in Wells for the past 32 years. She rose through the ranks and became director of […]
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PublishedMay 18, 2012
Feature Obituary: Richard Lucas, 81, fisherman and record-setting swimmer
PORTLAND – Richard “Dick” Lucas was a swimming sensation at Portland High School, where he became a three-time All-American and racked up accomplishments like winning the popular Peaks-to-Portland swim in 1947 at age 16 and setting a national record in the 50-yard backstroke. Though Mr. Lucas had great success in the pool and later as […]
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PublishedMay 16, 2012
Feature Obituary: Alice Conway, 51, fierce, caring fighter for disabled
AUBURN — Alice Conway was born with spina bifida and spent most of her childhood at Shriners Hospitals for Children and at Pine Tree Camp, a summer camp for children with disabilities. But she overcame her extraordinary challenges, became a fierce advocate for people with disabilities and dedicated her life to helping others. Ms. Conway, […]
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PublishedMay 15, 2012
Feature Obituary: Moses Gerry and Jonathan Seaman, friends and skilled workers
Moses Gerry and Jonathan Seaman were best friends and lived next door to each other for most of their lives.
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PublishedMay 9, 2012
Fire guts home in Saco
The family and dog are safe.
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