Activist enters fluoride debate in East Brunswick

A public health advocate has agreed to add his views to the debate over whether fluoride should be removed from East Brunswick’s water supply. Paul Connett, director of the Fluoride Action Network — an international coalition that maintains fluoride has negative health effects — was invited to speak at a future Township Council meeting by […]

Bethel board to decide on fluoride referendum question

BETHEL – The Board of Selectmen will decide Monday evening whether to approve a voter referendum on removing fluoride from the town’s water supply. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, April 13, at the Town Office. The town has added fluoride to the water supply since 1970. Bethel business owner Sarah Lane, […]

Concord Town Meeting turns down attempt to ban fluoride

Debate over two warrant articles dominated the first day of Town Meeting at Concord-Carlisle Regional High School.  Sunday, voters rejected both Article 10, a measure that would set in motion a process for recalling elected town officials, and Article 34, a move to ban fluoride in Concord’s public drinking water.  “I’m disappointed,” resident Lee Ann […]

Gloucester: Fluoride question advances in city

Gloucester residents are one step closer to being able to determine whether they want fluoride to continue being added to the city’s water supply. The City Council’s Ordinance and Administration subcommittee devised a non-binding ballot question at its meeting Monday night. With that, there is an important point the committee, as well as the Cape […]

Holyoke Health Board denies request for immediate fluoridation halt but will study

The Board of Health will study a resident’s concerns about fluoride in the public water supply but denied her request Thursday (April 9) for an immediate vote to stop fluoridation. “I would respectfully request that you temporarily remove fluoride from the water,” resident Kirstin Beatty said. “I’m not prepared to do that tonight,” said board […]

Iced tea likely caused man’s kidneys to fail

LITTLE ROCK, Ark — When a man went to the hospital complaining of general pain and feeling weak, tests showed he had high levels of calcium oxalate crystals in his urine. That’s the same material kidney stones are made of. Doctors found no family history of kidney stones or other issues, according to the Live Science […]

One on one with Sen. Lisa Murkowski

I had the pleasure of sitting down with Alaska‘s U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski at the Silvertip Grill in Girdwood on March 21. We talked about my old bacterial infection, my mother passing away, and then we got into the issues that affect the everyday person. I started by approaching her about fluoride being purchased from […]

Concord to vote on fluoride ban

This is the second of three articles taking a look at some of the warrant articles to be considered at this year’s Town Meeting, scheduled to start Sunday, April 12, at 1 p.m. at Concord-Carlisle Regional High School. Voters at Town Meeting will be asked to weigh in on a debate over fluoride in the […]