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• Activists pressing to stop fluoride in Plainville

  Six months after voters chose fluoride-free water, residents still have a 50 percent chance of getting fluoridated water every time they turn on a tap. About half of the town’s water goes through a treatment facility that Plainville shares with neighboring North Attleborough, which adds fluoride to its water. The two towns received four options […]

• Fluoride to begin its flow in SLC this week

  Salt Lake Valley residents will take their first sips of fluoridated water Wednesday, nearly three years after voters overwhelmingly approved fluoridation. Only three small water systems will not meet the Oct. 1 deadline, which means about 95 percent of the Valley’s homes and businesses will have fluoridated water flowing from the taps, said Royal DeLegge, […]

• Missouri 5 closed because of fluoride spill

  CAMDENTON, Mo. (AP) — Missouri 5 south of Camdenton was closed because of a hazardous chemical spill Friday, authorities said. Barrels of the chemical fluorosilicic acid were on a semi-truck, the Camdenton County Sheriff’s office said. Between six and eight of the barrels spilled Friday five miles south of Camdenton, but authorities said they weren’t […]

• Fluoride backers tout thrift, kids

  Proponents of fluoridating water are appealing to voters’ sympathy for underprivileged children as well as their pocketbooks, although some Davis County officials are questioning whether the cost of fluoridation would be as low as proponents have estimated. At a news conference with Salt Lake Valley board of health members, dentists and doctors Wednesday in Salt […]

• Fluoride brochures going out, but have magnifying glass ready

  If you don’t know anything about the water-fluoridation proposal going on the ballot in November, never fear: You will soon be receiving an information pamphlet detailing its pros and cons. But be warned: At least in Salt Lake County, your eyesight will have to be exceptional or your bifocals well-adjusted to make any sense of […]

• Fluoride vote on Davis ballot

  FARMINGTON, Utah (AP) — Davis County voters will decide whether their drinking water will be fluoridated. The Davis County Commission has approved a resolution placing on the Nov. 7 ballot the specific question, “Should fluorine be added to the public water supplies within Davis County?” For several years public health officials have been pressing to […]

• Fluoride Backers Push For Davis County Vote

  FARMINGTON — The Davis County Board of Health is not about to give up thefight for fluoride.In a letter authorized at a special board meeting Friday, chairwoman Beth Beck asked the Davis County Commission to consider new arguments for putting fluoride on the Nov. 7 ballot. “I’m hopeful,” Beck said. “The commission wants to put […]

• Rivals debate fluoride

  So what about fluoride? Both sides were presented Wednesday evening as a battle of words, coupled with conflicting research, characterized The Herald Journal’s forum on water fluoridation. An occasional heckler from the anti-fluoridation gallery taunted proponents Ariel Thomson and John Hubbard, but the setting was generally educational. But again, the question of to fluoridate or […]

• Fluoride without a fight

  CORNISH — Debbie McKnight remembers boasting as a child to classmates in neighboring Lewiston that she had no cavities. “They thought that was pretty cool. I nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah’d them right to death,” says Mc- Knight, now 42 and the mother of three children who, like their mother, have nearly cavity-free teeth. McKnight believes there is a […]

• CDC: Fluoride safe, protects teeth

  WOODS CROSS (AP) — The public debate about fluoridated water has nothing to do with science, according to an engineer with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Scientifically, (fluoridation) is absolutely safe,” David Apanian told water-system operators, elected leaders and public health officials from five Utah counties Tuesday. “It is effective. There are […]