By Stephen T. Watson

The Buffalo News

TONAWANDA, N.Y. — Ten months after Town of Tonawanda officials announced an ambitious plan to launch a municipal ambulance corps to serve the town and Village of Kenmore, the program has yet to leave the garage.

Town of Tonawanda Police Chief James Stauffiger discusses the town’s plan to create a municipal ambulance service at a news conference last year in the town’s paramedics division garage. Deputy Town Supervisor Gina Santa Maria and Town Supervisor Joseph Emminger look on.

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Tonawanda leaders unveiled the program in October and said it promised to improve emergency response times in the town and village, at no cost to taxpayers.

They predicted it would be up

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