H. Rose Schneider reports in The Altamont Enterprise that the Rensselaerville Volunteer Ambulance is closing up after 45 years, replaced by shared county emergency services. “It wasn’t an easy decision,” said Marion Overbaugh, an emergency medical technician for the Rensselaerville Volunteer Ambulance, who said she, and the organization’s two other EMTs, will continue to volunteer in their community. Without an ambulance, they say they will treat patients at accident scenes until an ambulance arrives. Rensselaerville, in southern Albany County, retains the advanced life support service with a paramedic in a “fly car” stationed in either Rensselaerville or Westerlo. The town is also now contracting from the county an emergency medical technician stationed in an ambulance at the Helderberg Ambulance station in Berne. The volunteer squad will be completely dissolved by September. The town is keeping the ambulance’s former station building and its $88,000-a-year bill for insurance. Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple has suggested he could use the building as a stopover point for patrolmen. Read the full story in The Altamont Enterprise