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Despite voters favoring it, Poynette board decides against fluoride
POYNETTE — The water here will remain without fluoride. Despite voters favoring by more than a 2-to-1 margin in last week’s election putting fluoride back in the water, the Poynette Village Board voted 3-2 on Monday to keep fluoride out of municipal drinking water. Village Board member Dave Branish said he voted against the referendum […]
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Poynette residents favor fluoride in water
POYNETTE — Residents here urged their board by a more than a 2-1 margin Tuesday to restore fluoride to their water. Village President Steve Tomlinson said the vote — Columbia County’s only municipal non-binding referendum — will dictate how he votes when the matter comes before the board at 6:30 p.m. on Monday. “If they […]
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Holmen Residents Work to Overturn Fluoride Referendum
If opponents have their way Holmen voters may have to make another decision about their drinking water. In November 2008, residents in Holmen voted to add flouride to the village’s drinking water. Opponents of the measure now want to overturn the referendum. They believe there’s a good reason for revisiting the issue. “In light of […]
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Madison: Poison in the water? Let’s talk
Bruce Rideout was expecting a different reaction. He thought his recent email to the Madison Water Utility questioning its addition of fluoride to drinking water would get a curt reply, or none at all. Instead, Rideout began hearing “from all these people strongly encouraging me” to raise the issue at the Water Utility Board’s next […]
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Fluoride debate surfaces in Poynette
Last July, the Poynette Village Board quietly voted to stop adding fluoride — long considered an antidote to tooth decay — to the public water supply. Steve Tomlinson, the village president, says the equipment the village had was old and unreliable, and the state doesn’t require fluoride in drinking water. More importantly, village trustee Kevin […]
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Chippewa council votes down fluoride
A plan to add fluoride to the municipal drinking water in Chippewa Falls was shot down again Tuesday night. The council voted 5-2 to take no action on a recommendation to add the chemical to the water supply, killing the measure. Several council members said the cost for adding fluoride – $209,000 in upfront installation […]
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St. Croix Falls city council sinks teeth into fluoridation issue
Ten years ago the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention listed the fluoridation of community water systems as one of the 10 great public health achievements of the 20th Century for reducing the incidence of tooth decay. Is water fluoridation still right for the 21st Century, though? The St. Croix Falls City Council wrestled with […]
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County Board of Health urges fluoridation for Chippewa Falls, Bloomer, Cadott, Lake Hallie & New Auburn
There’s a set of numbers to consider before the Chippewa Falls City Council hears a plea Tuesday night to add fluoride to the city’s water supply. And those numbers are 70 to 30. That’s the percentage that an April 2004 advisory referendum on fluoride was crushed by city voters. The referendum vote was quickly followed […]
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Chippewa Falls to revisit fluoride issue
The issue of adding fluoride to Chippewa Falls’ drinking water is back. Mayor Greg Hoffman has invited Jean Durch, Chippewa County’s public health director, to give a presentation at the City Council meeting Tuesday. The council in 2004 rejected a plan to add fluoride on a 6-1 vote. However, only one of those council members […]
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Prairie du Chien: Voters nix fluoridation
Excerpt: Voters flocked to the polls throughout the county to vote in patterns which closely resembled the patterns throughout the state, and Prairie du Chien voters soundly defeated the referendum proposal to fluoridate the city’s water. The fluoridation proposal, which is not a binding referendum but intended to give city council members an indication of […]
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