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Fluoridation vote on May 5 Oneida Council agenda
ONEIDA – Fluoridation of the water supply will be put to a vote at the May 5 Oneida Common Council meeting according to an agenda released Friday. Among other agenda items, the council will receive and place on file a form notifying the city of the intent of the Kallet Civic Center to file for […]
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Oneida: Opposing views on fluoridation shared at public hearing (update)
More than a dozen people shared their opinions during a Tuesday night public hearing on a proposed law that would fluoridate the City of Oneida water supply. There were about 55 in attendance. The hearing, the first agenda item of the night at the Oneida Common Council meeting, lasted just shy of two hours. About […]
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Fluoridation… make Oneida council agenda
A public hearing on a proposed fluoridation law is at the top of the Oneida Common Council agenda for Tuesday, April 21. Later in the agenda, relating to the issue of fluoride, council will receive and file communications from: Peter Hedglon of Oneida; Donna Westfall of Crescent City, Calif; Dona Fiedler of Sherrill, and others […]
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Fluoride advocates and opponents face off in Oneida
ONEIDA – Oneida residents had the opportunity to sit in on two meetings regarding fluoridation of the city’s water supply Monday. The first was held by Dr. Paul Connett at the Oneida Public Library, where about a dozen people attended to hear the Fluoride Action Network (www.fluoridealert.org) director speak. He noted that 97 percent of […]
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Fluoride, flood buyouts to be discussed at Oneida Common Council special meeting
ONEIDA – A two-item special meeting has been called for Monday, March 23 in the Oneida Common Council Chambers located at 109 North Main St. The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. On the agenda will be an update on the FEMA buyout program for home in the Flats neighborhood that were flooded in June of […]
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New York’s Fluoridation Fuss, 50 Years Later
Dr. Frederick S. McKay in 1952, explaining the benefits of fluoride in drinking water. Credit Bettmann/Corbis In March 1957, as Elvis was buying Graceland and the Soviets were preparing to shock the world with Sputnik, Robert F. Wagner, the famously cautious mayor of New York, was having trouble taking a stand. In two days, the […]
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In Oneida, opposing views expressed on fluoridation…
Two offered opposing views on fluoridating the city’s water supply at an Oneida Common Council public hearing Tuesday night. “This is an issue that has kind of percolated out there for some time,” said Oneida city mayor Max Smith. Speaking in favor of fluoridation was local dentist Dr. Samuel Barr. In a 10 minute presentation, […]
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Public Hearing on Fluoridation in Oneida tonight
Tuesday night’s meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Common Council Chambers located at 109 North Main St. in Oneida. Excerpts: In October 2014, common council filed a recommendation from the city Water Board, a letter from the Madison County Board of Health and an informational packet regarding a request from local dentists and […]
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Oneida Public Hearing on the fluoridation of the city’s water
A meeting of the Common Council of the City of Oneida, NY was held on the seventeenth day of February, 2015 at 6:30 o’clock P.M. in Council Chambers, Oneida Municipal Building, 109 N. Main Street, Oneida, NY. Public Hearing – Fluoridation of the City’s Water Resolution 15-34 APPEARANCES: Dr. Samuel Barr, Dentist, 231 Broad Street, […]
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NY State to expand fluoridation ignoring own evidence of harm & ineffectiveness
Despite their own evidence of harm and ineffectiveness, New York State unelected bureaucrats encourage water fluoridation expansion throughout the state, wasting money and endangering health, (12/15/2014 NYS Department of Health letter), reports the NYS Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation (NYSCOF). Unnecessary toxin-laced fluoride chemicals added to water supplies attempt to prevent cavities in tap-water drinkers. Plans […]
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