FULL LIST OF AWARDS:
Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram

First place

Business section: Staff
Sports section: Staff
Feature section: Staff
Editorial page: Sarah Collins & Greg Kesich
Scenic photo: Gregory Rec, “Sea smoke photographer”
People photo: Gabe Souza, “New citizen”
Picture story: Gabe Souza, “Passamaquoddys”
News video: Shawn Patrick Ouellette and Susan Kimball, “Maine officers salute police dog in emotional farewell”
Features/Lifestyle video: Amelia Kunhardt and Susan Kimball, “Old Man of the sea: Lobsterman, 84, has no plans to retire”
Continuing story: Beth Quimby, Edward D. Murphy, Randy Billings “Five dead in house fire on Portland’s Noyes Street”
Spot news story: Beth Quimby, Edward D. Murphy, Randy Billings “Five dead in house fire on Portland’s Noyes Street”
Feature story: Colin Woodard, “Unsettled: Triumph and Tragedy in Maine’s Indian Country”
Environmental story: Tux Turkel, “Does northern Maine’s economic future depend on a walk in the park?”
Business story: Whit Richardson, “How much further can Millinocket fall?”
Education story: Noel Gallagher, “Cost of higher education draining Mainers”
Health story: Kelley Bouchard, “Someone to watch over the journey’s end”
Sports news story: Deirdre Fleming, “Bear debate marked by contrast in funding”
Editorial: Greg Kesich, “Our View: South Portland students give lesson in patriotism”
Critic’s Award: James Schwartz, “Dine Out Maine: Street and Co. in Portland”
News/sports headline: Allison Busemeyer, “Some claws for alarm”
Specialty Page Design: Sally Ericson, Food & Dining
Freedom of Information: Scott Dolan
Best Young Reader Engagement: Staff
Self-Promotion: Staff
Best new revenue idea: Staff

Second place

Continuing story: Dennis Hoey, “Another blow to Maine’s paper industry: Verso Paper to close Bucksport mill Dec. 1, displacing more than 500 workers”
Investigative report: Joe Lawlor, “At state-run Riverview, danger and dysfunction pervasive”
Feature story: Eric Russell, “Cancer couldn’t stop Windham couple from saying, ‘I do'”
Food story/Feature: Mary Pols, “Farmer grows familiar foods for Maine’s African refugees”
Environmental story: John Richardson, “Tar sands battleground: South Portland”
Editorial: Sarah Collins, “Our View: With food-stamp cutoff, Maine’s able-bodied jobless snared in Catch-22”
Opinion columnist: Alan Caron, “Alan Caron: An inability to apologize makes LePage one sorry governor”
News blogger: Steve Mistler, “Capitol Ticker”
Scenic photo: Gregory Rec, “Sea smoke boat”
Features/Lifestyle video: Gabe Souza, “Jimmy the Milkman delivers dairy goods in York County”
News/sports headline: Nate Thompson, “Google barge moving, but where?”
Feature headline: John Willhoite, “No doubting Thomas”
Front Page Design: Brian Robitaille, “What the city won’t tell you”
Special Online Project/Section: Peter Vachon, Colin Woodard, Gabe Souza, “Unsettled”
Best circulation promotion: Staff

Third place

Food story/Feature: Meredith Goad: “Tracing family history via great-great-grandmother’s skillets”
Sports profile: Mark Emmert, “Former Sea Dogs catcher battered but far from broken”
Opinion columnist: Greg Kesich, “Greg Kesich: Mayhew’s campaign against Portland takes a bizarre turn”
Sports columnist: Steve Solloway
Local columnist: Bill Nemitz, “Terror, not truth welcomes returning hero nurse”
Critic’s Award: Daniel Kany, “Art review: A Dutch master to remember at Bowdoin museum”
Sports blogger: Mark Emmert, “Black Bear Essentials”
Sports photo: Gabe Souza, “Ice time sleeper”
Features/Lifestyle video: Gabe Souza, “Pig racing (with a GoPro) at the Cumberland County Fair”
Illustration: Michael Fisher, “Fast or furious”
Graphic: Michael Fisher, “Chronic pain”
Front Page Design: Brian Robitaille, “Unsettled”
Special Online Project/Section: Peter Vachon & Yoon Byun, “Photos of the Year”
Best supplement cover: Melissa Pritchard, President’s Day Auto