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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PublishedApril 22, 2011
Feature Obituary: Roberta Cavanaugh, 81, courageous woman who stood by her family
SOUTH PORTLAND – Family and friends will gather Monday at Hobbs Funeral Home to celebrate the life of Roberta Cavanaugh, a loving wife and mother of eight children who died Tuesday. She was 81. Mrs. Cavanaugh’s children remembered her Thursday as a strong and courageous woman who stood by her family. Daughter Mary Ann Harris […]
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PublishedApril 21, 2011
Feature obituary: Norman Parrott, 61, truck driver, happy with his simple life
SOUTH PORTLAND – Norman Parrott lived a pretty simple life and he couldn’t have been happier. He was a truck driver for Hannaford Bros. Co. for 20 years and a devoted husband and father to his two children. He took pride in his home in South Portland’s Willard Square neighborhood and enjoyed walking along the […]
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PublishedApril 20, 2011
Feature Obituary: Edward Lester, 57, former lead singer, guitarist for rock bands
PORTLAND — When Edward Lester took the stage, people noticed. He was the lead singer and guitarist for several popular rock bands in Portland in the 1970s and 1980s. He had a reputation for putting on a phenomenal show. “When Eddie was on, there was no equal,” said Scott Shuster, who played keyboards in the […]
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PublishedApril 16, 2011
Feature Obituary: Madelene Russ, 98, nurse, homemaker, community volunteer
CAPE ELIZABETH – The family of Madelene Russ stood by her bedside Tuesday morning at Village Crossings in Cape Elizabeth in the moments before she died. Mrs. Russ’ three children were there, along with their spouses and one of her grandchildren. “It was a remarkable experience,” said her son Joel B. Russ of Walpole. “It […]
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PublishedApril 14, 2011
Feature Obituary: John Sargent, 72, worked for people, not his car dealership
FREEPORT – Customers and employees of Casco Bay Ford in Yarmouth said they were shocked and saddened Tuesday over the sudden death of John Sargent, a well-respected car salesman who worked at the dealership for nearly 50 years. “Everyone is just dumbfounded,” said Joe Galletta, managing partner of Casco Bay Ford. “People are in shock. […]
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PublishedApril 9, 2011
Feature obituary: Vito M. Mininni, 82, businessmanwith zest for cooking and life
BIDDEFORD – Nearly every Sunday for the past 45 years or so, Vito M. Mininni cooked a traditional Italian dinner for his wife, Elizabeth, and their six children. As his family grew, Mr. Mininni spent longer hours in the kitchen cooking his best dishes — spaghetti and meatballs and lasagna. Last Sunday, Mr. Mininni cooked […]
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PublishedApril 8, 2011
Feature Obituary: Alice Mary Pierce, 85, former Waynflete teacher, trustee
PORTLAND – Alice Mary Pierce, a former Waynflete School teacher and trustee who received the school’s prestigious Drake Award in 2008, died Saturday. She was 85. Ms. Pierce had been a fixture at Waynflete since she was a child. She grew up on Spring Street, a stone’s throw away from Waynflete in Portland’s West End. […]
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PublishedApril 7, 2011
2nd Stiletto Challenge to be held in May
The pros know how to run in those things.
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PublishedApril 7, 2011
Feature Obituary: Bruce Goodwin, 78, retired auditor, fixture at town meetings
SANFORD – Bruce Goodwin, a former Sanford official and a retired state revenue agent, died Tuesday. He was 78. Mr. Goodwin joined state government in 1965 and worked his way up to tax auditor. His job was to audit companies that did business in the state. In 2000, he retired as a senior revenue agent […]
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PublishedApril 6, 2011
Feature Obituary: Gordon Finn, 89, retired postal worker, loved to garden, travel
SOUTH PORTLAND — Marjorie Finn had promised her husband, Gordon, that she would be with him when he died. For two months, she sat by his bedside at the Maine Veterans Home in Scarborough, sometimes eight to nine hours a day. On Monday night, she took her husband’s hand and kissed him on the forehead. […]
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