Edgartown Massachusetts: Fluoride loses Local Board of Health trys to Poison Residents.

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Edgartown: Fluoride loses

Source: The Martha’s Vineyard Times | April 13th, 2018 | By George Brennan

Location: United States, Massachusetts

Excerpt:
Voters overwhelmingly defeated an initiative to add fluoride to the town’s water, a rebuff to a controversial order issued by the board of health.
In a vote of 700-253 with 16 blanks, the fluoride initiative lost, despite the strong backing of dental and health professionals on the Island.
The town’s board of health voted to add fluoride, prompting a controversy over the decision and the
process used to issue that order. The town’s water commission opposed the move. Ultimately, a petition was circulated to bring the fluoride issue to a townwide vote culminating in Thursday’s no vote.
Some 969 of the town’s 3,627 registered voters went to the polls or 26 percent…

Deb Mello Orazem, a retired Edgartown School teacher, advocaties for article 6 outside the polls in Edgartown. Mello Orazem is married to a dentist, and said, “You have to look at all the research at trust the experts.” — Gabrielle Mannino

*Read the full original article online at https://www.mvtimes.com/2018/04/12/fluoride-loses-smadbeck-returned-office/

See also:

• Apr 5, 2018, Letter: Vote for clean water
• Apr 5, 2018, Experience or New Direction Anchors Edgartown Selectmen Race
• Apr 4, 2018, Letter: Fluoride isn’t worth the cost
• Mar 29, 2018, Letter: Professionals support Edgartown fluoridation
• Mar 10, 2018, Edgartown Debates Fluoride Question
• Feb 28, 2018, Edgartown to hold public forum on water fluoridation
  
• Dec 6, 2017, Edgartown. Letter: Health board didn’t follow law on adding fluoride
  
• Nov 29, 2017, Editorial. Edgartown: Decayed trust
  
• Nov 22, 2017, To fluoridate or not to fluoridate? Edgartown board of health leaves it up to voters
• Nov 22, 2017, Fluoride Question Goes to Edgartown Voters
  
• Nov 16, 2017, Fluoride Plan Continues to Draw Heat in Edgartown
  
• Nov 15, 2017, Edgartown. Letter: Fluoridation should be a townwide decision
  
• Nov 14, 2017, Edgartown: Fluoride decision gets town’s attention
  
• Nov 9, 2017, Edgartown: Board of Health Votes to Add Fluoride to Water, Causing Outcry
  
• Nov 8, 2017, Edgartown voters have less than 90 days to petition against fluoride
  
• Nov 8, 2017, Letter: Fluoride may do more harm than good
  
• Oct 20, 2017, Edgartown BOH Legal Notice: Fluoride level in drinking water to be raised
  
• Oct 20, 2017, Edgarton’s Board of Health to discuss fluoridation