The mayor of Cottage Grove, Minnesota, recently posted on Facebook that the city will no longer provide its ambulance service to surrounding cities, unless they pay up.

Cottage Grove provides EMS to the cities of St. Paul Park, Newport and the Township of Grey Cloud Island.

"I do NOT want to end the coverage of our amazing EMS services to the residents of St Paul Park, Newport, or Grey Cloud Island, but I cannot honestly justify the Cottage Grove Taxpayer continuing to pick up the costs of these losses coming out of our neighboring communities," Mayor Myron Bailey wrote on Wednesday.

The price of EMS is "extremely high," according to Bailey, who wrote that people who live in Cottage Grove are unfairly picking up the costs.

If neighboring cities don't pitch in, Cottage Grove would r

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