HUMBOLDT – As the Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District proceeds with a study on the prospect of providing drinking water fluoridation to its seven municipal customers, speakers at a hearing showed fear that the process will be tilted by influential fluoridation advocates. The water district’s board of directors again took up the question of water […]
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Effort to fluoridate more water in Oregon ends for this session
A bill backing statewide water fluoridation to prevent tooth decay is stuck in the Joint Ways and Means Committee without the votes to move it to either house before the Legislature adjourns. That means Oregon will retain, at least until next year, its ranking as the third-least fluoridated state in the nation, behind Hawaii and […]
Yarmouth Board of Health approves fluoridation plan
SOUTH YARMOUTH — Barring the success of a petition drive, Yarmouth will become the first town on the Cape to fluoridate its water supply. A small but vocal group of citizens was disappointed yesterday when members of the town’s board of health voted 3-2 in favor of the proposal. “You’re full of baloney,” Domenic Pacitto […]
Yarmouth says ‘yes’ to fluoride
Yarmouth – It should have been a routine vote for the Yarmouth Board of Health. Instead, it turned into a job for the Yarmouth Police Department. Board members approved fluoridation of the town’s water with a vote of three-to-two Monday afternoon at Yarmouth Town Hall, making Yarmouth the first town on Cape Cod to move […]
Yarmouth health board to vote today on fluoridation
SOUTH YARMOUTH — After a series of hearings on the widely debated issue, members of the board of health will vote on fluoridating the town’s water supply at their meeting at 3 p.m. today. “We have really bent over backward to be fair and let everyone have their opinion,” said Dr. Benjamin Gordon, the board’s […]
Fluoridation to reappear in tap water in Poughkeepsie
Fluoride comes back Monday after a two-year hiatus to water used by thousands of Poughkeepsie residents, but two Joint Water Board members remain concerned about potential negative health effects. Board Chairman Frank Mora also is angry with Dutchess County Health Commissioner Dr. Michael Caldwell, claiming he has not answered detailed questions about the return of […]
The fate of a state bill mandating fluoridation of many water supplies will be decided during a vote this week
SALEM — A planned Ways and Means Committee vote Friday on mandatory water fluoridation was delayed until the coming week to address a problem raised by House Speaker Jeff Merkeley, D-Portland. Meanwhile, the controversial issue threatens to sink under its own weight because of amendments that keep being added to House Bill 3099 in an […]
Vista Irrigation District updates customers on fluoridation plans
VISTA —- The Vista Irrigation District will start adding fluoride to its locally treated water in late 2007 to coincide with a plan by a major Southern California water supplier to fluoridate all of the treated water it delivers to region, according to the district’s annual water quality report. The report, released this month, describes […]
Fluoride bill re-emerges in Salem
SALEM — A controversial bill that would pre-empt Ashland’s ban on fluoridating its water supply has reemerged after stalling earlier this legislative session. State Sen. Alan Bates told his colleagues on a Joint Ways and Means subcommittee that he was troubled by Democratic Sen. Betsy Johnson’s temporary, planned absence from the panel just so the […]
Seven injured Alcoa workers back home.Officials stay silent on gas accident at Point Comfort plant.
POINT COMFORT – Alcoa officials refused to make any comment on the industrial accident that sent seven plant workers to hospital on Wednesday after being exposed to hydrogen fluoride gas. Alcoa’s public information officer, Laura Cahill, said she could not answer questions regarding how the employees were exposed or provide details on the extent of […]