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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PublishedNovember 12, 2017
Bill Nemitz: Can ‘fanatical moderate’ Susan Collins recruit others?
Her serving as honorary co-chair of the bipartisan group No Labels could be a light at the end of a long, dark political tunnel.
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PublishedNovember 10, 2017
Bill Nemitz: Bangor museum honors Maine’s greeters and their troops
For years, the Maine Troop Greeters have left their homes at all hours, in all kinds of weather, to head to Bangor International Airport to thank troops for their service as they pass through.
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PublishedNovember 5, 2017
Bill Nemitz: Extra! Extra! Press Herald is not endorsing Bree LaCasse
And about LaCasse’s mailer: Return to sender.
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PublishedOctober 29, 2017
Bill Nemitz: When did Shawn Scott become one of us?
He is not, never has been and never will be a Mainer.
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PublishedOctober 22, 2017
Bill Nemitz: Headlines show how far Maine has come
But there will always be those who refuse to see sexual orientation as a God-given right.
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PublishedOctober 20, 2017
Bill Nemitz: Prominent attorney helps teenage drivers steer clear of personal injury
After more than a dozen years of a contest that raises awareness about drunk and distracted driving, Joe Bornstein is taking it to another level with a traveling art exhibit and upgraded website.
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PublishedOctober 15, 2017
Bill Nemitz: Shawn Moody could make race for governor interesting
Can this guy in the sweatshirt who’s tight with a dollar gain traction as a newly minted Republican?
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PublishedOctober 8, 2017
Bill Nemitz: Here’s a thumbs-up to the memory of long-ago hitchhiking
How trusting – and maybe naive – we were so many decades ago.
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PublishedOctober 5, 2017
Bill Nemitz: We cannot sit silent as mass-kill weaponry takes more lives
As Bill Harwood of the Maine Gun Safety Coalition says, ‘The consequences are too high to keep letting this go on.’
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PublishedOctober 1, 2017
Bill Nemitz: Casino Lady hides a wily hand by mentioning concerts, conventions but no gambling
The campaign achieves new lows for its failure to openly acknowledge what it is we’ll be voting on.
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