Erika Leigh leaving Spectrum News
Kristi Gustafson Barlette
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Erika Leigh is leaving Spectrum News Albany. She has been a journalist for more than a decade working in Massachusetts, Connecticut, South Dakota and New York and with Spectrum for two-and-a-half years.Erika Leigh
Erika Leigh is leaving Spectrum News Albany.
She has been a journalist for more than a decade working in Massachusetts, Connecticut, South Dakota and New York and with Spectrum for two-and-a-half years.
“From being there as Lansingburgh lost its community safe-haven Alpha Lanes to a devastating fire, to the one-year anniversary of the Schoharie limo crash, to being the anchor on the desk the night we had a couple from Syracuse stuck on the Diamond Princess cruise ship amid one of the first major COVID-19 outbreaks and finally seeing the first vaccine administered in the Capital Region at Albany Med, it’s been a privilege,” says Leigh.
Kristi Gustafson Barlette By Kristi Gustafson Barlette on April 5, 2021 at 11:08 AM
Erika Leigh is leaving Spectrum News Albany.
She has been a journalist for more than a decade working in Massachusetts, Connecticut, South Dakota and New York and with Spectrum for two-and-a-half years.
“From being there as Lansingburgh lost its community safe-haven Alpha Lanes to a devastating fire, to the one-year anniversary of the Schoharie limo crash, to being the anchor on the desk the night we had a couple from Syracuse stuck on the Diamond Princess cruise ship amid one of the first major COVID-19 outbreaks and finally seeing the first vaccine administered in the Capital Region at Albany Med, it’s been a privilege,” says Leigh.
By Editor | December 30, 2020 |
Edward Linn Shields was born in Leon, Decatur County, IA on June 17, 1949, the youngest child of Kenneth Leo and Juanita Natalie Whisler Shields. At the age of seventeen, Ed accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior and was baptized in the First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Mount Ayr, IA. On August 11, 1968 Ed married his high school sweetheart, Kathy Jean Burright, and to this union two daughters were born, Erika Leigh (1972) and Emily LeAnn (1977). Ed had a strong devotion to family. To those who really knew Ed, the core values that he lived by were to serve Jesus Christ, to be a good listener and find the good in people, to transmit knowledge particularly to the youth with whom he came in contact, to share joy and to maintain a strong work ethic. Ed never ceased to learn.