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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PublishedDecember 20, 2012
Bill Nemitz: Deep thanks to the pillar of West End
Never in his 11-plus years as the voice of Portland’s West End did Ed King expect to make a lot of friends. But it happened anyway . . .
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PublishedDecember 14, 2012
Bill Nemitz: Take a walk in footsteps of an angel
As last requests go, Marie Trott’s seemed pretty straightforward . . .
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PublishedDecember 12, 2012
Bill Nemitz: Portland teen shelter a testament to ‘average’ Joe
Even if he were still alive, Joe Kreisler would shrug off far-right catch pharses like “cycle of dependency” and “culture of entitlement” and just keep on helping people.
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PublishedDecember 3, 2012
Bill Nemitz: Save tears for Belcher’s victims
He was a murderer. We should be talking more about his dead girlfriend and orphaned child — not him.
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PublishedNovember 29, 2012
Bill Nemitz: Maine scientist discovers lobster-eat-lobster world
Cannibal lobsters? They’re real, and a local scientist caught them on video.
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PublishedNovember 27, 2012
Bill Nemitz: Dysfunction no mystery to new Maine Speaker
If ever there was a time when Augusta needs a certified family therapist, this is it . . .
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PublishedNovember 7, 2012
Bill Nemitz: When will Democrats get back in the game?
Cynthia Dill’s performance in Maine’s U.S. Senate race signals trouble for the Maine Democratic Party.
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PublishedOctober 28, 2012
In the end, that marriage certificate means a lot
Long-time partners Joseph Stackpole and Richard Johnson hope to officially wed in Maine before Stackpole dies from a rare, aggressive form of cancer called plasma cell leukemia.
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PublishedOctober 26, 2012
Bill Nemitz: Linda Bean evokes Hitler in rant on Obama
Is Barack Obama comparable to a man who helped murder 11 million people? One Maine lobster-roll saleswoman says “yes.”
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PublishedOctober 24, 2012
Bill Nemitz: For enemy of gay marriage, untruths best told quickly
Frank Schubert likes to tell stories. Really, really short and scary stories.
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