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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PublishedJune 20, 2019
Bill Nemitz: Someone finally read the Mueller report – out loud
Ten Bucks Theatre Company in Bangor hits the stage with the document that everyone’s talking about but few have actually examined.
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PublishedJune 16, 2019
Bill Nemitz: Life was always tough, but she proved tougher
Think kids have it too easy these days? This one didn’t.
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PublishedJune 12, 2019
Bill Nemitz: Hey neighbors, why are asylum seekers just a ‘Portland problem’?
As a wave of newcomers arrives from the Mexican border, it’s time for other communities to step up.
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PublishedJune 9, 2019
Bill Nemitz: Local business washes away a big-box store nightmare
After Home Depot makes a washer and dryer go poof, Central Furniture and Appliance shows the age-old art of good customer relations.
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PublishedMay 16, 2019
Bill Nemitz: Mayor Isgro could learn a lot from former Mayor ‘Rudia’ Giuliani
The flap over a Drag Queen Story Hour at Waterville’s Children’s Book Cellar reveals, once again, the dark side of the city’s provocateur in chief.
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PublishedMay 9, 2019
Bill Nemitz: Don’t want your kid vaccinated? Just play the ‘God card’
The debate over the ‘religious exemption’ to Maine’s mandatory vaccination law is starting to sound like an old ‘Seinfield’ episode.
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PublishedApril 21, 2019
Bill Nemitz: On cancer and credit cards: Speaking her truth to the guys in suits
As paid lobbyists line up in Augusta against a package of prescription medication reform bills, the lone voice of a woman from Limestone lays bare the travesty of high drug prices.
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PublishedApril 17, 2019
Bill Nemitz: When a church falls, we lose more than just a building
The horrific sight of Notre Dame Cathedral burning stuns the world and, closer to home, triggers memories of the day another church came crashing down.
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PublishedApril 14, 2019
Bill Nemitz: ‘Survivor Bob’ aims his frustration – and shotgun – at resurgent browntail moths
Bob Crowley laments how close he once came to ending Maine’s infestation. Now they’re back with a vengeance.
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PublishedApril 7, 2019
Bill Nemitz: Welcome to America – one backpack at a time
Seventeen church congregants from Yarmouth, most of them retirees, head for Texas to see the border crisis for themselves.
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