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HARRISONBURG – Rockingham County should reconsider whether to continue treating its water with fluoride, the county public works director says. Warren Heidt will submit next year’s public works budget proposal to the Board of Supervisors on Jan. 15. In the proposal, he plans to make a footnote saying fluoridation funding can be cut at Three […]

Date of publication: November 19-25, 2008 Timberville (VA) – Timberville’s plan for a November 2009 fluoride referendum hit a snag last week at council meeting. Timberville’s attorney, Mark Callahan, presented officials with a copy of Section 24.2-684 of 1950 Code of Virginia as Amended which deals with the state’s referendum regulations. The section states, “the […]

Folks in Timberville were hoping for a decision to be made Thursday night about whether to continue to add fluoride to their water supply, but they’ll have to wait for the town to vote. The decision has gotten mixed responses with the town’s council members. “At this time we are forcing something upon the citizens, […]

Fluoridation is widely accepted as a public water treatment, but a Broadway resident wants to change that. Joan Hulvey set up two meetings this week where she will present information and scientific studies that she says show the detrimental health effects associated with fluoridation. The first meeting is today at 6:30 p.m. at the Massanutten […]

HARRISONBURG – So far, Timberville residents are the only ones in Rockingham County voicing concerns to local government about fluoride in their water. Nevertheless, county officials are keeping a close eye on the subject. Over the last several months, Timberville folks have complained to the town’s council about the chemical additive, which has been added […]

TIMBERVILLE – The town’s water will continue to be treated with fluoride – at least, for now. On Thursday night, Timberville Town Council decided to put off voting on whether to discontinue fluoridation, a process detractors say is detrimental to the community’s health instead of the benefit most public health officials claim. The delay was […]

TIMBERVILLE – The Town Council is considering whether to continue treating its water with fluoride, and residents and officials got an earful at a forum Monday night from dentists with opposing views. About 40 people gathered at the Plains Elementary School auditorium to participate in the forum, which became impassioned and argumentative at times. The […]

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. Officials in three Virginia localities are trying to reduce excessive levels of fluoride, which in higher levels can damage teeth. Drinking water in Isle of Wight County and the communities of Smithfield and Suffolk has — in some instances — double the recommended levels of cavity-fighting fluoride. Too much fluoride can turn […]

Pictures clutter Lemander Haley’s bookshelves, her end tables and her kitchen counter. But none of the photos – not the high school graduation portrait, not the prom snapshot, not the faded Christmas prints – show Haley smiling. More often than not, the 27-year-old Franklin native wears a tightly drawn expression, with lips pursed to hide […]

SMITHFIELD- It will cost the town initially about $2 million and an additional $900,000 in the next 10 years to lower high fluoride in its drinking water, a consultant told Smithfield officials during the town’s water and sewer committee meeting Monday. “It’s better than what we’ve heard before,” said Mark Norris of Smithfield’s Public Utilities […]