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Feb
BROADALBIN — Rev. Rob Phillips lives about 100 yards away from the historic Broadalbin Baptist Church. His dinner was interrupted early Tuesday evening. It sounded like a bomb exploded. The house shook.A lightning bolt around 5:15 p.m. — the second time within the last three decades — blasted through the steeple’s easterly top and into the balcony area, blowing chunks out the Great Sacandaga Lake-area worship center. Some of the walls were singed and electrical units were fried, but the building didn’t catch fire. Nobody was injured. Phillips, who has been pastor for the last 12 years, has noticed church members in the…