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“911, what’s your emergency?” That’s the phrase Christine “Chris” Midolo has spoken as a civilian dispatcher at the North Haven Police Department for the past three decades.

While such words are just part of the job for Christine, they denote a haven of help and authority for those seeking emergency assistance. On May 31, Chris will retire from the job she has loved from the first day she started.

Before becoming a dispatcher, Chris worked at the Wawa company on York Street in New Haven on the midnight shift. It was at Wawa that she met many police officers in her course of work, which resulted in her securing a part-time dispatcher job at Yale University…