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KRKO told no to more towers
A Snohomish County hearing examiner has rejected plans for two radio towers proposed south of Snohomish, citing health concern for nearby residents.
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Letter: Disguises can't mask cell tower health risks
By now, most of us have heard about the news reports of the dangers of cell phone use and link to brain tumors. Cell phone towers are no different in causing health risks.
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Revolt Grows Against Cell Phone Towers
Trying to ward off what they call an "invasion" of potentially hazardous cell phone towers atop apartment buildings, angry Bay Ridge residents appealed to their Community Board 10 for help at a recent meeting.
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How Mobile Phone Towers Work
If you aren't sure that cell phone towers and masts are harmful the following study summaries should convince you.
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There's no stopping a cell tower
Verizon Wireless wanted to construct a 307-foot cell phone tower on Green Wilson Road last year. But after a public hearing where several voiced opposition, the Frankfort/Franklin County Planning Commission vote 4-2 in April 2007 to deny the request for the tower.
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Verizon, Alltel Merger Brings Questions About Worker Health
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers wants the Federal Communications Commission to require Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) and Alltel Corp. (AT) to adopt a nationwide safety program protecting people from harmful radio frequencies as a condition of their proposed merger.
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Leechburg replaces zoning officer in tower issue
The controversy over a recently erected cell phone tower is about to heat up again. The zoning hearing board will have a hearing July 31 to entertain the argument by Crown Castle Towers and Chester and Terry Rea that the borough's zoning ordinance is invalid because it doesn't permit communications towers and related antennae and equipment.
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Cell tower plan at High School South opposed
A proposal to locate a cell tower on the grounds at Middletown High School South has caused concern among some residents, and a Web site has been set up to rally the opposition.
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ESCONDIDO: Cell phone tower project turned down
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously last week to overturn the Planning Commission's approval of Cricket Communication's proposal to build a 50-foot-tall cell phone tower in an old neighborhood outside the city's southeastern border.
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Proposed Fraser cell phone tower dials up static with neighbors
A 100-foot tall cellular tower could rise over the Fraser Valley. Cricket Communications Inc. has asked Grand County officials for permission to build the structure at High Country Stampede near Fraser. Residents who live near the location are worried about health risks as well as a decline in property values.
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Group proposes new task force to monitor siting of cell towers
A group of citizens is proposing a task force to monitor the construction of cell towers in Woodstock. Last night, representatives from the Woodstock Citizens for Responsible Cell Tower Placement met with the Board of Selectmen to outline plans for a Wireless Telecommunications Task Force made up of members from several town boards and town residents.
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South Butler board can do little to stop cell tower
Although several South Butler County School Board members and district residents aren't in favor of a cell phone tower being built near Knoch High School, there doesn't seem to be much the board can do. Residents have voiced concerns about potential health problems and decreased property values to the school board and Jefferson Township Supervisors.
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Parent and Children Protesters Chant: ‘Take Cell Phone Towers Down!’
Over 200 children led by their parents marched from P.S. 185 along the busy 86th Street business hub to the Verizon Wireless store at Fifth Avenue on Thursday to protest cell phone towers across from their school. They shouted and waved signs demanding: "Take the cell phone towers down!"
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Cell phone tower proposal in Epping denied
The Planning Board put a halt to a proposed plan for a cell phone tower on High Street on Thursday night, with a 3-2 vote to deny a conditional use permit that would allow for a tower in that zone.
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Wireless spreading, pole by pole
The nodes are coming. Or as Robert Van Campen, president of the Everett Board of Aldermen, describes them, "gym lockers hanging on the side of utility poles." With a seemingly insatiable public demand for more wireless phone coverage, Everett, Malden, and Chelsea are on a growing list of suburban communities targeted by a California-based telecommunications company that is building a new type of wireless network.
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Cell Phone Towers and Mobile Phone Masts - Beacons of Harm
Is it a cactus? A palm tree? A water tower? No! It's a cell phone tower! That's right! Cell phone towers today are being disguised in subtle ways unheard of just a few years ago. See a grain silo? Or a church steeple? You guessed it. It could very well be a cell phone tower. There's even a cell phone tower that looks just like a lighthouse...never mind that it's over two miles from the ocean.
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Neighbors Sue Over South Berkeley Cell Phone Towers
The Berkeley Neighborhood Antenna-Free Union (BNAFU) filed a lawsuit in the Alameda County Superior Court last week to stop the installation of 11 cell phone antennas on top of UC Storage at 2721 Shattuck Ave.
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Commission downs cell tower plan
The Edmond Planning Commission wrestled this week with whether the city and its residents can tolerate another 150-foot cell phone tower. There currently are 23 towers inside the city limits.
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Cellular tower safety questioned
Kent First Selectman Ruth Epstein believes establishing a cellular tower in Kent is a matter of public safety, but the preponderance of testimony given by panelists in Cornwall last weekend suggests that the technology is more dangerous than the emergencies it might avert.
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Fire Fighters oppose basestations on Fire Stations
Position on the Health Effects from Radio Frequency/Microwave (RF/MW) Radiation in Fire Department Facilities from Base Stations for Antennas and Towers for the Conduction of Cell Phone Transmissions
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Clock monument will serve as cell tower at Liberty Park
The city has approved a plan by Cellular South to erect a clock monument at Liberty Park that will double as a cell phone tower for the company. The monument will stand anywhere from 80 to 110 feet in height with four clock faces at the top.
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Residents Rally Against Cell Tower Construction
Residents rallied, on Friday, at the construction site of a cell phone tower, which they think will damage their Whitestone neighborhood.
Councilman Tony Avella and state Sen. Frank Padavan spoke to the crowd that gathered at the shopping strip, on 149th Street, between 7th and 8th avenues, where T-Mobile has begun constructing a 65-foot tower.
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New cell tower approved despite health concerns
A plan for a new tower for U.S. Cellular directly diagonal to the Marshalltown High School met all city requirements and was approved to be built Tuesday by the Board of Adjustment despite concerns about the effects of radiation on students.
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Council Votes Against T-Mobile Tower
Meeting last Thursday evening, the Pacific Palisades Community Council voted to oppose T-Mobile's plan to install a 45-ft.-high cell tower in the form of a 'mono-palm' on Charmel Place's cul-de-sac in Marquez Knolls.
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Opponents preparing to combat cell tower
A proposed cellular transmission tower in Vails Gate has barely begun working its way through the town's review processes, but opponents already are preparing for a possible legal challenge down the line.
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