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Dr. G. Robert Evans said he was always determined his kids wouldn’t have any cavities. As a dentist, he had his children use fluoride drops, fluoride tablets and fluoride gels, especially his son, a budding actor. “Then his permanent teeth came in,” said Dr. Evans, who runs a holistic medical and dental practice in Groton. […]

No fluoride After hearing overwhelming opposition from residents, the Greenfield Board of Health has decided not to support community water fluoridation. In October, the Community Health Center of Franklin County suggested the town consider adding fluoride to its public water after a dental hygienist found a significant amount of tooth decay and oral health problems […]

GREENFIELD — After hearing overwhelming opposition from residents, the town’s Board of Health has decided not to support community water fluoridation. In October, the Community Health Center of Franklin County suggested the town consider adding fluoride to its public water supply after a dental hygienist found a significant amount of tooth decay and oral health […]

Board of Health has tentatively scheduled a public hearing regarding the fluoride topic on January 9, 2017. This was in the minutes of the Sturbridge Board of Selectmen meeting on Dec 5, 2016. If you plan on attending double-check that the meeting is still on.

BROCKTON – Another road block is stopping the Brockton Board of Health from putting fluoride into the city’s drinking water, in a saga that has stretched back nearly 45 years. City Board of Health member Craig Andrade seemed shocked that the cost of establishing a fluoridation system for Brockton’s drinking water had increased tenfold from […]

ASHLAND — The town has been drawing water from Southborough since late September, and since, a concern has trickled to the surface several times: water in Southborough has fluoride, and Ashland doesn’t, per a decade-old Town Meeting vote. The town has drawn 200,000 gallons or less on a handful of days to replenish drying wells […]

GREENFIELD — The Community Health Center of Franklin County has suggested that the town consider adding fluoride to its public water supply after a dental hygienist found a significant amount of tooth decay and oral health problems in young children while visiting local schools. Edward Sayer, CEO of the Community Health Center, will speak before […]

Shrewsbury – The first and second articles on the warrant for the Sept.  26 Shrewsbury Special Town Meeting (STM) were brought by citizen petition. Speaking for the petitioners of the first article, John Lukach asked the TM to vote on the procedure for setting water rates. Under the petition, water rates could not be set […]

SHREWSBURY – Town meeting rejected an article that would have discontinued the town’s 63-year practice of putting fluoride in the drinking water. Town meeting last year also turned down an attempt by Bryan Moss, Precinct 9 member, to stop fluoridation of the town’s drinking water. Mr. Moss and two other proponents pointed out that people […]

The town of Duxbury held its special town meeting Monday night and residents voted no to removing fluoride from the town water. Article 8 was a citizens’ petition to remove fluoride from the drinking water. Duxbury town manager Rene Read says the water in Duxbury will stay the same for now. “The fluoride question was an interesting question. […]