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Bill's Broadsides

POSTED:Sat, June 27, 2009 @ 1:55AM

So Long, Jansen Avenue

We had a blast today at the Jansen Avenue Elementary School funeral — er, carnival. The rain put a damper on things, at least for the adults, who were all a little melancholy already because we knew that was our neighborhood school's last gasp. The kids don't seem to mind being split up among three other schools, and they didn't mind jumping in the bouncey house in a torrential downpour, either.

A group of kids from my son's class drew my portrait in sidewalk chalk and then proceeded to stomp on me in effigy:



Here's my son in the center of the mob, when the whole school posed for a group photo by Bill Trojan:

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nymomma
06-27-09 11:25 PM
I remember going to Jansen for about 3 year when the district was recutting the lines where certain kids should go depending where they live. Then they changed it back. Seems they were just as confused years ago as they are now lol. Anyways it is a somber day to see it close.

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Bill Ackerbauer

Assistant City Editor Johnstown native Bill Ackerbauer began his journalism career in 1996 as a reporter with The Leader-Herald. He has been an editor and writer for newspapers in Schenectady, Saratoga Springs and Dover, N.H., and returned to the Leader in 2007. 'Bill's Broadsides' has twice won first-place awards (2007-08 and 2008-09) in the New York State Associated Press writing contest for newspapers in the Leader-Herald's circulation category. Bill teaches English as an adjunct instructor at Fulton-Montgomery Community College, and he has taught journalism courses at the University at Albany. In his spare time, Bill plays folk music on guitar, banjo, fiddle and other traditional instruments. He lives in Johnstown with his wife, Jen, and their two sons, Liam and Carter.

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