Onlookers watch as flames engulf a structure on Overlook Drive in Watertown, November 2023. Zachary Canaperi/Watertown Daily Times
Mayor-elect Sarah V. Compo Pierce celebrates her victory on election night in November, 2023 Watertown Daily Times
A tree worker clears debris from RVs at the RV park on West Road in Turin, where a tornado passed through in August, 2023. Zachary Canaperi/Watertown Daily Times
A north country high school student sits inside the cockpit of a Black Hawk helicopter, during the 10th Mountain Division's Army Career Day, October 2023. Zachary Canaperi/Watertown Daily Times
DiBernardo Productions of Syracuse films a scene for the upcoming horror film, "EXscpaped" inside an abandoned building behind Credo Community Center in Watertown, September 2023. Zachary Canaperi/Watertown Daily Times
Mayor Sarah V. Compo Pierce speaks after being sworn in at the Roswell P. Flower Memorial Library in Watertown, January 2024.
Crews work on pumping water out of a large pit at Eastern Boulevard and Huntington St., where a water main broke, October 2023. Zachary Canaperi/Watertown Daily Times
Cheryl Lawlor inspects the inside of a large maple tree that fell just feet from her Holcomb Street house in Watertown, January 2024.
Firefighters respond to the scene of a house on fire on Overlook Drive in Watertown, November 2023. Zachary Canaperi/Watertown Daily Times
Crews work on pumping water out of a large pit at Eastern Boulevard and Huntington St., where a water main broke, October 2023. Zachary Canaperi/Watertown Daily Times
Crews work on pumping water out of a large pit at Eastern Boulevard and Huntington St., where a water main broke, October 2023. Zachary Canaperi/Watertown Daily Times
A truck is covered in smoke and ice beside a house that caught fire on Ridge Road in Natural Bridge, February, 2024.
Ora Hawkins takes a moment for contemplation inside the Thomas Memorial AME Zion Church, a place that she said she was heartbroken to see so deteriorated, after having spent many years attending services there. Zachary Canaperi/Watertown Daily Times