Bill Nemitz has worked as a journalist in Maine since 1977, when he became a reporter for the Morning Sentinel in Waterville after graduating from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He moved to Portland in 1983, working first as a reporter for the Evening Express and later as a city editor and assistant managing editor/sports for the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram. He began writing his column in 1995. While focusing on Maine people and issues, his work has taken him three times to Iraq and twice to Afghanistan, where he was embedded with members of the Maine Army National Guard and the Army Reserve; to Belfast, Northern Ireland, for the 1998 referendum on the Good Friday Peace Accord; to Manhattan for the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks; to the Gulf Coast for the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; and to Haiti following the 2010 earthquake. Nemitz is a past president of the Maine Press Association and for many years taught journalism part-time at St. Joseph's College of Maine in Standish. He also served for eight years, including three as chairman, on the board of trustees for the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland. In 2004, the Maine Press Association named Nemitz Maine Journalist of the Year for his reporting on the Maine Army National Guard’s 133rd Engineer Battalion in Iraq. In 2007, he received the Distinguished Service Award from the New England Newspaper Association. In 2015, Nemitz was inducted into the Maine Press Association Hall of Fame. Nemitz lives in Buxton with his wife, Andrea. They have five children and four grandchildren.
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PublishedSeptember 4, 2020
Bill Nemitz: Mainers can face COVID-19 head-on, or they can hide behind God
The Sanford preacher at the center of Maine’s worst pandemic outbreak promises the ‘pestilence’ will be smote from on high.
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PublishedAugust 30, 2020
Bill Nemitz: With Maine’s latest COVID-19 outbreak comes a question: Who’s liable?
Assigning legal culpability for spread of the pandemic isn’t as simple as it may seem.
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PublishedAugust 27, 2020
Bill Nemitz: Here’s to that ‘clown’ on the side of the road
Dwight Barnes, on behalf of Ronald McDonald House Charities, is taking a long, long walk around New England.
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PublishedAugust 23, 2020
Bill Nemitz: Protecting Maine’s democracy, pitchfork at the ready
His 14-year tenure in its homestretch, Secretary of State Matt Dunlap still faces an election for the ages.
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PublishedAugust 20, 2020
Bill Nemitz: When the mail slowed, Maine postal workers picked up their whistles
Without front-line workers willing to sound the alarm, the postal service crisis may have gone undetected far longer.
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PublishedAugust 16, 2020
Bill Nemitz: Read my lips? Not if you can’t see them
For deaf and hard-of-hearing Mainers, communicating through face coverings amid the pandemic has become all but impossible.
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PublishedAugust 9, 2020
Bill Nemitz: What day is it? Welcome to ‘Blursday’
For many amid the COVID-19 pandemic, it feels like the hands on the clock have stopped moving.
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PublishedAugust 7, 2020
Bill Nemitz: It’s no longer just ‘helping the kids with their homework’
As another anything-but-normal school year looms, parents and guardians need to reach out for help – and give themselves a break.
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PublishedJuly 26, 2020
Bill Nemitz: Think it’s the pandemic keeping Maine lawmakers off the job? Try pure hypocrisy
If you happen to see any Republican state legislators, tell them it’s time to get back to work.
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PublishedJuly 19, 2020
Bill Nemitz: They came, they saw, they trashed the place
Thanks to the ‘all about me’ crowd, Buxton’s favorite park is now a no-trespassing zone.
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