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SANDPOINT — Residents here will no longer be able to gargle with city water to get fluoride on their teeth. The city council voted 4-2 this week to quit adding fluoride to the municipal water system, which serves communities from Kootenai to Dover, including Sandpoint. After being tabled for two years, the glass tipped against […]

REPEALING FLUORIDATION ORDINANCES 269 AND 1034 Councilwoman Davis approved forwarding to City Council consideration of repealing Ordinances 269 and 1034, with Council members Logan and Reuter dissenting. 5:30 P.M. City Council Chambers – 1123 Lake Street

SANDPOINT — Removing fluoride from the city’s drinking water has been a pungent topic among council members who will once again address the issue in an upcoming meeting. After the narrow defeat of a proposal last year that sought removal of fluoride from the municipal water supply, members of an anti-fluoridation group asked the city […]

PROPOSED WATER ADDITIVE ACCOUNTABILITY ORDINANCE Councilman Reuter stated that a majority of the Public Works Committee opposed the proposed ordinance, but Councilwoman Davis wanted the matter to be discussed with the full City Council. Councilwoman Davis felt the proposed ordinance sets an objective standard and criteria for assuring the safety of water additives. She stated […]

COUNCILWOMAN DAVIS MOVED TO PLACE THE WATER ADDITIVE ACCOUNTABILITY ORDINANCE ON THE APRIL 21, 2010 CITY COUNCIL FOR DISCUSSION. Councilman Reuter said the Water Additive Accountability Ordinance does not lead to a discussion of accountability or disclosure. He believes it is another method to remove fluoridation that he believes protects all children in our community. […]

Excerpts: PONDERAY – Voters here and in Sandpoint will not lack for choices when they head to the polls on Tuesday, Nov. 3… Sandpoint race… Boge and Newton, two of the council’s more seasoned veterans, explained their differences on the hot-button issue of fluoridation. Boge said he no longer supports the additive because it is […]

NEWDALE, Idaho — The city of Newdale is looking at building a water treatment plant and adding a storage tank to address problems with high levels of arsenic and fluoride in the water supply. The project also would rehabilitate both city well pumps and install a generator so the city could continue to provide water […]

SANDPOINT — Much to the chagrin of the 20-plus anti-fluoride advocates in attendance, the City Council decided Wednesday night to continue its controversial water fluoridation program. After more than an hour of testimony both extolling and denouncing the practice, the council was unable to reach consensus on the issue. When all the votes were tallied, […]

SANDPOINT — The Fourth of July is well behind us, but Sandpoint is saving its most explosive fireworks for Wednesday night, when the City Council finally gets its chance to weigh in on the controversial water fluoridation ordinance. More than a dozen anti-fluoride activists spoke out against the program at September’s Public Works meeting, imploring […]

SANDPOINT — Tensions ran high at Wednesday’s Public Works meeting when more than a dozen anti-fluoride activists stood before the commission to demand the city stop adding fluoride to its water. Calling the practice unethical, unsafe, illegal and even a crime against humanity, fluoride opponents made impassioned pleas to council members John Reuter, Michael Boge […]