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BRANCH COUNTY — The 911 Central Dispatch board promised a special meeting next week to try to address a continuing crisis in staffing.

This came after six-year dispatcher David Houvener read a letter to the board about lack of people to man the 24-hour-per-day, seven-days-a-week critical service.

Normal staffing requires 11 workers, but the service has been operating with fewer and is again down to seven dispatchers…