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Anti-fluoride movement intensifies north of Boston
Despite widespread belief among US health officials in fluoride’s safety and effectiveness, dozens of activists north of Boston are pushing for communities to eliminate it from water supplies, saying the fluoridation process medicates residents without their consent. Two local organizations — Health Roundhouse , a group that has focused its activism in Newburyport, and the […]
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Newburyport: Councilors won’t seek fluoride vote tonight
NEWBURYPORT — The City Council is scheduled to meet tonight at 7:30 in City Hall, but the subject of fluoride has been taken off the agenda. City councilors Ari Herzog and Meghan Kinsey had planned to request a vote of the City Council on preliminary steps to take fluoride out of the municipal drinking water. […]
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Newburyport. Letter: Hiding behind degrees and associations
To the editor: I was one of the dozen or more opponents of fluoride in our drinking water who spoke at the Newburyport Council on Monday, Jan. 15. My sources of knowledge were from the Fluoride Action Network whose information comes from peer review scientific research. The Daily News article, “Fluoride vote under review,” referenced the degrees and professional […]
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Newburyport fluoride vote under review
After opponents push for ban, dentist calls it ‘fear-mongering’ NEWBURYPORT — An initiative to ban fluoride from the city’s drinking water reached the City Council Monday night, but like many dental issues, it appears that it will take a few more appointments before the matter is resolved. Councilors listened to more than a dozen presentations […]
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Newburyport City Council to discuss fluoride ballot question tonight
The Newburyport City Council is scheduled to meet tonight at 7:30, and one of the items of business is discussion of a possible referendum on the use of fluoride in the city’s water supply. Councilors will discuss adding a referendum question regarding fluoride to a Nov. 3 ballot. In recent months, a small group of […]
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Brockton may fluoridate drinking water after 40 years of inaction
Richard Wainwright recalls getting the order to fluoridate Brockton’s drinking water from the city’s Board of Health when he was mayor more than 40 years ago. The public health measure, approved in 1972, survived a last-minute derailment attempt by an activist, which failed when he could not muster the signatures of 10 percent of Brockton’s […]
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Gloucester council OKs crafting of ballot question on fluoride
The choice of whether the city of Gloucester should continue community-wide fluoridation may be posed to the city’s voters next fall. Following a public hearing Tuesday night, the City Council voted 8-1 to allow its Ordinance and Administration committee to devise a nonbinding ballot question for the fall 2015 elections. The vote came on a […]
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Editorial: Gloucester voters deserve chance to be heard on fluoridation
After successfully pushing for a public referendum for next spring’s election ballots in Rockport, a group of both Gloucester and Cape Ann activists committed to putting an end to community-wide fluoridation in their communities’ water systems will get a turn at a public hearing tonight before the Gloucester City Council. And their first goal will […]
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Gloucester: Fluoride city talks on tap for council
Eliminating fluoride from Gloucester’s drinking water is the aim, and getting the City Council to support the measure is the game, according to those who are against having the substance in the city’s drinking supply. The push for removing Gloucester from the list of those cities and towns that provide communitywide fluoridation of the public […]
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Fluoride ban debate flowing statewide
Newburyport one of several communities where ban is discussed BOSTON — A public health program to fight tooth decay that dates to the end of World War II is increasingly controversial, as opponents of adding fluoride to the public drinking water step up efforts to end the practice in several Massachusetts communities. At least 140 […]
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