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MERIDEN — Five months after city leaders said they were aggressively working to alleviate a worker shortage at the city’s Emergency Communications Center, the department is on its way to something close to a full roster, City Manager Timothy Coon said this week.

Staffed with seven dispatchers when it usually budgets for 14 and can have as many as 18, the center has four new people hired and in training and six more job candidates still involved in the interview or hiring process, said Doree Price, the center’s director…