H. Rose Schneider reports in The Altamont Enterprise that the closing of the Rensselaerville Volunteer Ambulance is costing other towns in southern Albany County, as the county added an emergency medical technician in an ambulance and a paramedic in a mobile vehicle locally. “We didn’t ask for the EMT and the ambulance, it was put here.... Nobody told us, nobody asked us; it was just put here.” said Debra Mackey, co-captain of Westerlo Volunteer Ambulance. So $20,000 to the Albany County Sheriff’s Emergency Medical Services has been added to Westerlo's budget. The town will have to pay $40,000 more in 2019, and $80,000 more by 2022. Berne starts by paying $17,000 more, and Rensselaerville adds $60,000 in costs to their budget. Read the full story in The Altamont Enterprise.