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Ozark voters to decide on fluoridation
OZARK ? The fate of fluoridation of the city?s water will be up to the voters, Ozark aldermen decided Monday night. That decision came after nearly 100 people wearing stickers proclaiming ?When In Doubt, Keep It Out? crowded into the board chamber. That turnout, prompted by Citizens Advocating Pure Ozark Water, came two months after […]
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Residents vote against fluoridating city’s water in referendum
STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo. – Voters on Tuesday rejected a proposal to fluoridate the city’s water system, 54 percent to 46 percent. Although the proposal was in a nonbinding referendum, members of the city’s Board of Aldermen expect to vote on the issue in coming weeks. How the board will vote is still in question, however. […]
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FLUORIDATION: Fiction, fact and the Internet
The truth is out there. Just ask any faithful fan of television’s “The X Files.” Or, better yet, ask former Ste. Genevieve mayor Mike “Buck” Jokerst, who has used information obtained on the Internet in a campaign against fluoridating that town’s drinking water. “The pro-fluoride people today never counted on the truth being so easy […]
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Effort to put fluoride back into water system meets strong resistance in Ste. Genevieve, Mo.
STE. GENEVIEVE, MO. – More than 30,000 volunteers and 1 million sandbags helped this historic city on the Mississippi River fight the Flood of 1993. Most of its French colonial houses survived. Its contaminated water-treatment plant reopened. And the tourists came back. But one thing never returned. As dentist Kent Sadler found out at a […]
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Local Industries Release Figures on ‘Worst-Case’ Scenarios
Treading lightly on a delicate subject, leaders of industry and safety agencies disclosed details Tuesday about potential but unlikely chemical leaks that could threaten everyone in the St. Louis region. There has never been a massive vapor-release accident here and probably never will be, they emphasized. But a federal rule requires reporting worst-case scenario risks […]
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