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Meadville: Group requests fluoride be added to local water
A request to add fluoride to the City of Meadville’s municipal water system will be on the agenda Monday night when Meadville Area Water Authority gathers for its monthly meeting, which will begin at 5:30 p.m. at the authority’s administrative offices at 18160 Rogers Ferry Road in Vernon Township. The meeting is open to the […]
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Fluoride-rinse maker expanding in Bustleton
Medical Products Laboratories Inc. has been approved for a $472,500 loan with an interest rate of 1.5 percent through the Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority to help buy a building near its operations in the Bustleton section of Philadelphia. The privately held company will buy an existing 22,900-square-foot building as part of a $1.03 million project […]
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Tyrone: Hold The Fluoride?
In a 6-2 vote, the Tyrone council recently voted to begin the process of potentially removing fluoride from the borough’s drinking water. Fluoride is a chemical compound included in many drinking water supplies across the country. The Center for Disease Control and American Dental Association both agree on its effectiveness in fighting cavities and helping […]
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Tyrone Council to remove fluoride
Tyrone Borough residents will no longer have fluoride in their water, beginning later this spring. Council voted 6-2 in a meeting last week to direct the Water Department to begin removing hydrofluorosilicic acid and its associated chemicals… Read the full article Print PDF
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The Delaware Valley School Board discontinued fluoride tablet program in 2010
MILFORD — The Delaware Valley School Board welcomes back former board member Sue Casey, who will be filling the vacancy left by the resignation of Diane French. French submitted her resignation in December, saying she was leaving the board for personal reasons. Two applicants were nominated by the board. Jessica Adler Decker, director of Milford’s […]
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Westmoreland customers getting fluoride out of their water
With a few twists of his wrist, Charles Gallo of Ligonier Township says he can protect himself from a harmful substance in his drinking water. He recently attached a reverse-osmosis purification device to his kitchen tap to rid his water of fluoride. He and about 1,500 Ligonier Valley customers of the Municipal Authority of Westmoreland […]
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The next Allentown water issue could be fluoridation
As long as passions are running hot and heavy in Allentown over whether to hock the city’s water system decades into the future, it may be a good time to consider whether to continue injecting poison into that system’s drinking water. A little bit of poison won’t hurt anybody, it has been argued since the […]
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Many Lehigh County Authority customers now getting water from Allentown
Authority’s customers started getting city’s water this week under deal struck in 2008. Many Lehigh County Authority customers began getting their water from a new source this week when water from Allentown began flowing to them, the authority announced Wednesday. The change occurred after the authority completed the second phase of a project that connected […]
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West Manheim Township: Top 10 local stories of the year
A fatal deer disease brought big changes to local hunting, and the trial over a slain game warden determined the fate of a Carroll Valley man. Penn State faced a year of tumult, while those in Hanover organized an effort to revitalize downtown. The question of whether fluoride should be added to drinking water divided […]
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Philadelphia. City Council notes: Profile of a prolific commenter
If the three-minute testimony allowed to each member of the public during the comment period in City Council meetings each week can be regarded as an art form, then Robert Taylor should be regarded as Philadelphia’s most prolific artist. Taylor, president of Transport Workers Union Local 700 for the past 25 years and a libertarian, […]
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