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Oak Bluffs backs incumbents, says yes to fluoride
Oak Bluffs voters backed incumbents in a five-way race for two seats on the board of selectmen and voted in favor of continuing to add fluoride to the town’s water supply at the annual town election Thursday… A large majority of voters voted in favor of continuing to add fluoride to the town water supply. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Holyoke would need board vote or special act to stop fluoridation
HOLYOKE – Three ways exist for the city to stop fluoridation of public water and none appears easy or imminent, city councilors learned Tuesday (April 1). Two health officials told the Public Safety Committee at City Hall water fluoridation’s benefits outweigh any negatives. According to city staff attorney William Newcomb: –The city Board of Health […]
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Martha’s Vineyard: Keep Fluoridating
On April 16 at the annual town election the voters of Oak Bluffs will face a ballot question asking whether the fluoridation of the town water supply should continue or be discontinued. Fluoride, a naturally occurring mineral, has been added to the public water supply in Oak Bluffs continuously, for the last 24 years, since […]
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Holyoke councilors to consider fluoridation, discarded needles, unstable buildings
Fluoride in the water, needles on the sidewalk and shaky buildings on the streets are among issues facing a City Council committee at a busy meeting Wednesday (April 1). The Public Safety Committee meeting is at 6 p.m. at City Hall. Here are some of the agenda items: –Councilor James M. Leahy has asked David […]
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Shrewsbury Town Meeting warrant finalized
The Shrewsbury Board of Selectmen Tuesday night approved the finalized warrant for the next town meeting, adding four new articles to be discussed and voted on. Two of the four new items could require an overhaul of Shrewsbury’s water management and relationship with fossil fuel providers. Citizen petition articles 13 and 14 call respectively for […]
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Holyoke Councilors to discuss fluoridation with Holyoke Water Works
The Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins University and the World Health Organization are among those who say that not only is fluoridated drinking water safe but it helps prevent tooth decay. But doubts have persisted along the lines that fluoride could be harmful and that government fluoridation of public drinking water is wrong because it removes […]
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