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jriddle@thealpenanews.com News Photo by Julie Riddle Congregation members join a song leader in a Christmastime hymn at Resurrection Lutheran Church in Alpena on Sunday. ALPENA — This Christmas season, local churches have had to decide if Christmas Eve will be a silent night. Throughout 2020, local churches have tried to find the balance between protecting people’s physical safety and filling a spiritual need that, some feel, supersedes even the threat of COVID-19. As at many other congregations, leaders at Resurrection Lutheran Church in Alpena have wrestled with how best respond to the ...
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