BRYAN EATON/File photos. Over two years of work on renovation of the First Religious Society's church and steele, also known as the Unitarian Church. Bill Heenehan shows a rotted girt during a tour of the Unitarian Universalist Church steeple in September of 2015. The girt will have to be repaired instead of replaced.

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