LUDINGTON – Ludington’s Lakeside Civic Players and West Shore Community College are teaming up to bring area audiences an early Christmas gift. “A Christmas Story,” Jean Shepherd’s classic holiday tale of the season, will run Thursday through Saturday, December 18-20, at 7:30 p.m., and Sun., Dec. 21, at 2 p.m. All performances are at the Ludington Area Center for the Arts newly refurbished Performance Hall. Christine Plummer, director…