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Kennebunk: Town meeting to address fluoridation
Whether the town will pose a question to the voters in November about continuing water fluoridation will be decided at a tentativelyscheduled July 22 board of selectmen meeting. The 4-3 decision came after the board fielded a variety of comments from the public. Resident Jan Hanson, along with Norm Labbe, superintendent of the Kennebunk, Kennebunkport […]
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Battle over fluoride in water heats up in Kennebunk
KENNEBUNK, Maine — The Board of Selectmen heard differing opinions on fluoride in the town’s drinking water last week and has scheduled a special meeting to continue discussions. The board held its first discussion on the topic during its July 8 meeting after it was raised by resident Janice Hanson during a June 22 meeting. […]
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Wells joins fluoride discussion
WELLS — The Board of Selectmen is considering supporting placing a question on the November ballot that would ask voters if they want to remove fluoride from their drinking water system. During a Tuesday, July 15 meeting, the Board of Selectmen discussed whether to approve putting a question on the November ballot that would allow […]
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Battle over fluoride in water heats up in Kennebunk
KENNEBUNK — The Board of Selectmen heard differing opinions on fluoride in the town’s drinking water last week and has scheduled an upcoming special meeting to continue discussions. The board held its first discussion on the topic during itsTuesday, July 8 meeting after it was raised by resident Janice Hanson during a June 22 meeting. […]
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Bethel residents to vote on fluoride in drinking water
BETHEL — Selectmen on Monday unanimously voted to call a special town meeting for Sept. 8 to vote on whether to continue adding fluoride to the town drinking water. … Bethel has been adding it to the water since a town vote in 1970. … A public hearing will precede the meeting, with details yet […]
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Portland Water District in Maine Recognized by CDC with Fluoridation Award
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services recently announced that the Portland Water District has been awarded a Water Fluoridation Quality Award from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Fluoridation is the adjustment of fluoride in drinking water to a level that is effective for preventing tooth decay. The award recognizes […]
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Bingham water main fixes will require short-term chlorination
BINGHAM — Pam Miller, a manager at Thompson’s Restaurant, said her customers not only enjoy the taste of the food but also the taste of the water. As a Bingham resident, Miller, 48, said she’d have to agree. “It’s better than any other town I’ve been in,” she said. Bingham is one of nine municipal […]
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Southwest Harbor: Fluoride is out
SOUTHWEST HARBOR — By a margin of two to one, voters here on Tuesday, May 7th. decided to stop having fluoride added to the town’s water supply. The vote was 145-72. Like many towns across the country, Southwest Harbor has been fluoridating it’s water since the 1950’s to protect against tooth decay. But critics of […]
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Maine better than New Zealand in kids’ untreated tooth decay
The Pew Charitable Trust may want to start studying how Maine manages tooth decay in children. Our level of untreated tooth decay for third graders was 14.6 percent in 2011 — the second lowest in the nation. Instead of looking at Maine, however, Pew is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in a number of […]
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Southwest Harbor: Fluoridation vote on May 7
… On Tuesday, May 7, voters will go to the polls to decide whether the town will continue adding fluoride to the water supply … Print PDF
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