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The Board of Health held a public forum on March 6 at town hall to seek input from residents about fluoride in drinking water. The topic was raised by chairperson Melissa Bra­ga at a Board of Health meeting several months ago. According to the US Cen­ters for Disease Control and Prevention, fluoride strengthens teeth and […]

TEWKSBURY, MA — The Tewksbury Board of Health will hold a public forum on fluoride in the town’s water supply. All residents are invited to the forum which will discuss the topic of keeping or removing fluoride from the town’s water supply. The forum will be March 6 at 6:30 p.m. at Town Hall’s Main […]

Fluoridated drinking water has come under fire in recent days, targeted by local activists and Cabinet member Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Medical consensus says fluoride is harmless at levels found in drinking water and helps prevent tooth decay. Opposition to fluoride hinges on claims of toxicity, or that adding it to public water denies the […]

As a biologic and naturopathic dentist with more than 20 years of experience, the difference between fluoride applied topically to teeth versus systemic water fluoridation is substantial. Topical applications reduce cavities, studies show. The journal Frontiers in Oral Health attributes the “principal mechanisms of reduced cavity rates in many populations of the world” to topical […]

For generations, some have questioned the safety of ingesting drinking water containing fluoride. They’ve been mocked, called tin foil hat-wearing conspiracy theorists and worse. Even Stanley Kubrick’s classic “Dr. Strangelove” could not resist having the deranged Gen. Jack D. Ripper expound “Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had […]

Another citizens petition to remove fluoride from Somerset’s drinking water was before Special Town Meeting on Saturday. The measure was defeated, 192-154 votes. The same or similar petitions have been before voters three other times in less than two years, and all have failed. This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy. […]

Somerset Special Town Meeting is Saturday, Feb. 8. There are 13 articles on the meeting warrant, including a new police cruiser, making the town clerk an appointed job, and removing fluoride from the water supply. Somerset has unsuccessfully attempted to remove fluoride from its water before, most recently at a 2023 Special Town Meeting. Somerset […]

In 1988, 100 people packed the auditorium at Morris Elementary School in Lenox, but the audience wasn’t there for a school play. What was billed as a presentation about fluoridating the town’s tap water, according to Eagle archives, turned into a “face-off” over the pros and cons of tooth-hardening fluoride. “Children and adolescents in Berkshire County have […]

NEWBURYPORT – Linda Paulhus adds a substance to each glass of water, because she’s hyper conscious about what she drinks. “It alters the molecular structure of water,” the 81-year-old Newburyport resident tells WBZ. Would she ever drink a glass straight from the sink? “Never,” she says. Why? Paulhus has spent the last 39 years fighting […]

When did it become okay to cheat in order to achieve an agenda and amass power? That certainly wasn’t what I was taught in parochial school. Perhaps the change in our values originated in the writings of George Orwell who coined the terms “DoubleThink” and “NewsSpeak” to describe a world where the “Ministry of Truth” […]