Despite warnings from the city’s water department about an inefficient delivery system and harmful environmental effects, as well as references to studies that fluorinated water can cause bone cancer, the Aspen City Council decided at a work session Monday that fluoride will continue to be added to the city’s water supply. The council was considering […]
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Big West: Alternative refining process ‘would work’
Big West of California officials said Monday they’re open to a new proposal that would allow the company to boost gas and diesel output without introducing new hazardous chemicals into the community. The company’s comments were the first in response to a revised environmental impact report released Friday that detailed an alternative option with fewer […]
Nebraska: Fluoride could go on ballot throughout area
CENTRAL NEBRASKA — Grand Island’s not the only one. Towns throughout Central Nebraska are leaving it up to voters to decide whether to opt out of the Legislature’s new mandate to fluoridate all water in municipalities with 1,000 or more people. Officials in Hastings, Shelton and York voted this month to place the issue on […]
Hastings: Local group petitions for ‘Safe Water’
A citizens group in Hastings is now circulating a petition to ensure that if fluoride is put in the city’s water that the compound is safe for humans. Marvin “Butch” Hughes, local chapter organizer of Nebraskans for Safe Water, is leader of the petition drive that started after the Hastings City Council voted to put […]
Water district manager: Ads are prelude to mandatory fluoridation attempt
EUREKA SPRINGS — Alarmed by the appearance of a half-page ad promoting water fluoridation in the June 19 Lovely County Citizen (the ad also appeared in this newspaper June 20), Carroll-Boone Water District (CBWD) Office Manager Jim Allison contacted this newspaper Friday to inquire about whether it was a paid ad and its source. The […]
Hastings voters to decide on fluoride issue
For the first time since the 1970s, Hastings voters will decide if fluoride should be added to the city’s water supply. On Monday, the Hastings City Council unanimously approved putting the issue of fluoridation on the Nov. 4 election ballot, rather than leaving that up to petition circulators. In April, the Nebraska Legislature passed LB245, […]
Lawmakers seek costs to add fluoride
Water systems with 5,000 or more hook-ups would be required to find out costs to bring fluoride levels to approved levels under a bill that won final House approval Sunday and was sent to Gov. Bobby Jindal. A compromise version of the measure, Senate Bill 312, won House approval 78-19. It cleared the Senate on […]
Fluoride’s glory may be cresting
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—The great American assault on tooth decay began here 63 years ago, earning Grand Rapids a special place in the annals of dental history: the first city in the world to fluoridate its public water system. So it is more than a little head-scratching that fluoride, the chemical widely credited with dramatically cutting […]
Towns question fluoride use
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.-The great American assault on tooth decay began here 63 years ago, earning Grand Rapids a special place in the annals of dental history: the first city in the world to fluoridate its public water system. So it is more than a little head-scratching that fluoride, the chemical widely credited with dramatically cutting […]
Fluoridation debate in Hastings got bubbling iin the 1950s
In February 1955, results of a study on fluoridation conducted in Nebraska and northern Kansas thrust the topic into discussion in Hastings. The study had shown that children living in low-fluoride cities had an average of about three times as many decayed teeth, four times as many missing teeth and two times as many filled […]