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OGDENSBURG — Beginning in June, anyone who calls the Ogdensburg Police Department with an emergency will be advised to hang up and dial 911, the latest move by the city as it works to transfer its police dispatching to St. Lawrence County.

On Wednesday, St. Lawrence County Attorney Stephen D. Button was notified in a letter written by Cheryl I. Sacco with Coughlin & Gerhart LLP, a firm representing the city, that it will “cease providing City Police Dispatch and the County needs to handle Police dispatch obligations in the same manner that it does Fire and EMS calls from the City…