The police log entry, which appeared in this newspaper in July 2005, went like this . . .
Bill Nemitz
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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Bill Nemitz: In Augusta, a look under the hood gets hot
Brave woman, that Beth Ashcroft. Sometime next month, the director of the Maine Legislature’s Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability (commonly called OPEGA) will lead her six-member staff into what is already a political wildfire — the never-ending computer catastrophe at the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. That’s hardly unusual for OPEGA […]
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Bill Nemitz: Professors plot in cyber schoolyard
University professors, by definition, know a lot of things about a lot of things . . .
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Bill Nemitz: Lawyer driven to wrongs by a killer
If you thought you’d finally heard the last of Rory Holland, the convicted murderer and longtime lightning rod for all things controversial in Biddeford, think again.
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Bill Nemitz: Is campaign worth their day jobs?
The Republican candidates for Senate have to decide.
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Bill Nemitz: Veterans advance in line for jobs
Let’s start today with something we can all agree on: If there’s one thing that Maine’s Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans deserve now that they’re home, it’s a job. “They may not have experience doing the job you’re looking to fill,” conceded Godfrey Wood, president and CEO of the Portland Regional Chamber, in an interview […]
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Bill Nemitz: Maximum security turns into holding cell
Beyond providing storytelling fodder, the escapades of two inmates at the Cumberland County Jail do raise some serious questions.
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Bill Nemitz: Could Angus King steer Senate to high road?
Nine percent. That was the number swirling around Angus King’s head when he decided to run for Olympia Snowe’s U.S. Senate seat.
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Bill Nemitz: Snowe’s done what she could; now she’s just done
It’s easy to speculate what might be behind the senator’s decision.
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Bill Nemitz: Tip for Maine GOP – First collect votes, then name winner
Mercifully, the decision on which presidential candidates get which of Maine’s 24 delegates to the national convention won’t be made until the Republican state convention in May.