While consumers can now see how much common inpatient hospital procedures cost, it may not matter to most patients, who generally don’t receive bills for those prices.
May 2013
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Gardiner closer to welcoming natural gas in 2013
Gardiner schools and city buildings may be hooked up with natural gas sometime this year if a proposal from one of two natural gas companies is accepted.
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Kennebec Journal area police log, May 11, 2013
Police said they think alcohol was a factor in a Friday night motorcycle crash on Route 17 that injured a 51-year-old Union man.
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Harvest of friendship grows in garden for sight-challenged pair
When 52-year-old Deon Lyons, of Clinton, lost his eyesight in 2010, he was ready to give up living.
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Maranacook student finds living relative of deceased WWII soldier
Maranacook Community High School sophomore Sydney Green located a living relative of one of the seven Maine soldiers buried in a military cemetery in France as part of a research assignment for history class.
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Thomas’ top honors graduate credits her mother for success
Top honors graduate Shelby Gilcott gives credit to her mother for her success over her four years at Thomas College.
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UMA graduates gather for commencement Saturday
Four hundred graduates of the University of Maine at Augusta participated in commencement exercises at the Augusta Civic Center Saturday morning.
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Thomas College honors graduates
Thomas College celebrated the graduation of 169 students Saturday.
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Mom and daughter spend Mother’s Day in style
A Readfield mother and daughter have a non-traditional way of celebrating Mother’s Day: on a 1976 Honda Goldwing motorcycle.
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SNAPSHOT: Welcome visitors
Akira Muto, Japanese Consul General for New England, right, and his wife, Misako, laugh and sing along as Japanese language teacher Naoto Kobayashi leads his students in a song Friday at Richmond Middle School. Muto, who is based in Boston, and his delelgation spent the day visiting Maine. They met with Gov. Paul LePage at the State House in Augusta and stopped at Hall-Dale Elementary School before the Richmond visit. There were visits to Bath and Portland scheduled for later in the day.