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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PublishedOctober 14, 2018
Bill Nemitz: Elders group far too busy for the reverie of retirement
The Elders for Future Generations aren’t slowing down for anybody.
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PublishedOctober 11, 2018
Bill Nemitz: As laughable claims go, Collins’ talk of fundraising ‘extortion’ takes the cake
The senator, who has benefited from copious donations, dismisses a legitimate crowdfunding effort to buoy a future opponent as a ‘bribe.’
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PublishedOctober 7, 2018
Bill Nemitz: Two miracle workers win Nobel and save my life
James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo laid the groundwork for a new generation of immunotherapy drugs that offer hope to cancer patients who previously had none.
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PublishedSeptember 23, 2018
Bill Nemitz: If Collins believes judge’s accuser, can she take her side?
That’s the central question as the senator prepares to cast a crucial vote for or against putting Brett Kavanaugh on the highest court in the land.
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PublishedSeptember 20, 2018
Bill Nemitz: With his murder sentence nearing its end, inmate fled from the prospect of freedom
With just 15 months left on his sentence, Arnold Nash escaped last week only to be caught four days later, in an apparent effort to stay longer in the captivity he’s known for so long.
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PublishedSeptember 16, 2018
Bill Nemitz: My Lai exhibit puts us on the other side of our guns
The exhibit focuses in part on the atrocities committed by American troops in the Vietnamese hamlet on March 16, 1968.
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PublishedSeptember 13, 2018
Bill Nemitz: On gun laws, this Democratic candidate thinks just like most Mainers
But the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine and Republican Bruce Poliquin’s campaign are uncomfortable with military veteran Jared Golden’s knowledge and reasonableness on the issue.
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PublishedSeptember 9, 2018
Bill Nemitz: Sen. Collins’ legacy faces key test with Kavanaugh
As she prepares to vote yea or nay, she should take a long, hard look at the political landscape.
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PublishedSeptember 2, 2018
Bill Nemitz: Green thumb meets field of dreams in Buxton
An 8-year-old boy gets an early start on his ambition to become a farmer by growing a bumper crop of hundreds of tomatoes. And then there’s the business of selling them.
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PublishedAugust 30, 2018
Bill Nemitz: Raging toward the end of his tenure, LePage conjures up the ghost of Frank Rizzo
They share the anger, the scowl, the tight body language, the schoolyard insults.
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