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Union County officials are moving forward on a project to overhaul the 911 dispatch system.

“It’s just a total upgrade,” said Union County Emergency Management Director Curt Clayton. “This system will be the state-of-the-art system.”

The project will involve buying all new equipment and “redoing the whole 911 system,” Clayton noted.

The county’s current 911 system is working, but some parts are out of date, he said. Parts for some of the system cannot be purchased anymore, and the software is also out of date, Clayton said…