Press Herald Columnist Bill Nemitz To Enter Maine Press Association Hall Of Fame

Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram writer and columnist Bill Nemitz will be inducted into the Maine Press Association Hall of Fame this month. Nemitz will be joined at the Oct. 17 induction ceremony in Bangor by journalist Bob Kalish, formerly of The Times Record in Brunswick, and Lou Ureneck, who was executive editor of the Portland Press Herald, the Portland Evening Express and the Maine Sunday Telegram. Both Nemitz and Ureneck have previously been honored by the Maine Press Association as Maine’s Journalist of the Year. Nemitz is currently taking an extended break while undergoing treatment for cancer. “I thought you had to be dead to win that,” Nemitz said Monday night.