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Potsdam forum focuses on choice about fluoridation
POTSDAM — More than 20 people gathered Thursday night in Potsdam’s Town Hall community room to listen to a man who had helped coordinate the removal of fluoride in Canton’s water supply. However Paul Connett, a former professor at St. Lawrence University, was preceded by two women who had taken the evidence he had shared […]
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Fluoridated water opponent to speak at Potsdam town meeting July 26
POTSDAM — One of the leading opponents of municipal water fluoridation will speak at the Potsdam Town Hall Community Room at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 26. Dr. Paul Connett, formerly on the faculty at St. Lawrence University and now acting director of the Fluoride Action Network (FAN), will present “Fifty Reasons to Oppose Fluoridation.” His […]
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Ogdensburg considering changes to how it fluoridates drinking water
OGDENSBURG — City officials are considering changes to how the municipality fluoridates its drinking water to see if there are ways to save money and improve safety conditions when handling the chemicals and equipment needed for the task. The Development Authority of the North Country has completed a report that compares several options for fluoridating […]
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Potsdam water quality flagged with violations, then rectified; fluoride decision awaits research
POTSDAM — The village was flagged with two water quality violations in 2017. Trihalomethane, a chemical formed when water containing decontaminants such as chlorine react with organic materials such as decomposing vegetation, exceeded the allowable limit February 2017, according to the village’s drinking water quality report for 2017 released in May. Since the village officials […]
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Most Potsdam village respondents say services worth the cost
POTSDAM — Most village residents in Potsdam queried in a recent poll would prefer to keep current village services and have property taxes rise rather than cut services to accommodate a property tax cut. Another highlight of the 2018 Potsdam Poll showed that 80 percent of village residents feel their quality of life in the […]
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Children’s Fluoride Exposures Linked to Later Life Disease?
NEW YORK – “[F]luoride exposures in early life could influence or originate the root-cause of certain diseases in later life,” write researchers in The Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry (5/2018), reports the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. (NYSCOF) Nakamoto and Rawls, from the Health Sciences Centers of Louisiana State University and the […]
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Potsdam will study fluoridation system with help from grant funding
POTSDAM — The village will go ahead with a grant-funded study of the village’s aging water fluoridation system. They are doing so without the guidance they expected from the state Department of Health (DOH) on the matter. The Board of Trustees voted last Monday to spend $9,900 for a study from Environmental Design and Research […]
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Newark village receives funding for water treatment plant
The village of Newark recently received $553,000 from the New York State Department of Health for water fluoridation at its water treatment plant. Mayor Jonathan Taylor and administrator Stephen Murawski submitted a grant request in 2017 with help from MRB Group. A fourth round of funding through the state’s Drinking Water Fluoridation program became available, […]
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Schulyer Center on NYS 2018-19 budget for fluoridation
Schuyler Center’s Last Look at the NYS 2018-19 Budget – page 5 Community Water Fluoridation What’s in the Final Budget The Final Budget includes a re-appropriation of funding for infrastructure. What was in the Executive Budget The Executive Budget proposed to re-appropriate funding approved in the previous two budgets for installation or upgrading of water […]
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Potsdam Village Trustees discuss fluoridation
Excerpt: … In other business, Trustee Steven J. Warr requested that the issue of fluoridation of the village’s water — which the trustees have been debating since last summer — be brought back after a break of several months. “I think we just need to bring it to a head somehow,” he said. Trustee Abigail […]
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