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Montgomery, Alabama – Listen,now, to some of the stories making headlines in the WVAS newsroom this hour. Send your news items to Tana Shealey via e-mail at tshealey@alasu.edu or call us at 334-229-4783.

Montgomery, Alabama – Listen,now,to some of the stories making headlines in the WVAS newsroom. Send your news items to WVAS-FM via e-mail to Tana Shealey at tshealey@alasu.edu or call us at 334-229-4783.

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March 12,2009 – Listen,now,to some of the stories making headlines this hour in the WVAS newsroom. Send your news items to WVAS news via e-mail to tshealey@alasu.edu or call us at 334-229-4783.

Montgomery, Alabama – The Montgomery County Board of Education is reversing its decision to close to area schools.

Hayneville Road Elementary and Pintlala Elementary schools will be able to keep their doors open if the Board receives help from the Alabama Legislature.

Board officials say the school may remain open if they system receives $1.4 million by May 1,2009.

Paterson Elementary, the third school that the Board named for closure, remains slated to shut down.

Montgomery,Alabama – Listen,now,to some of the stories making headlines in the WVAS newsroom this Wednesday, March 11,2009.

Montgomery, Alabama – The next mayor of Montgomery will grapple with a disturbing trend sales tax revenues in the Capital City are down 11.3 percent for January.

This as neighboring Prattville reports a 70 percent increase in sales tax revenue collections.

Montgomery's sales tax revenue is down about $4 million from this time last year. Interim Mayor Charles Jingright has placed the city under a two percent budget cut for all departments that could free up about $3 million.

Montgomery, Alabama – The polls are open in Montgomery as residents pick the next mayor of the capital city. Election officials are hoping for a larger turnout, but if absentee ballots are any indication,that won't happen.

Montgomery Election Center officials say just shy of 490 absentee ballots were turned in by Friday. While Monday was the final day to turn absentee ballots in, the Montgomery Election Center says it will accept absentee ballots that arrive in the mail by noon today. In the last mayoral election, only 34 percent of registered voters cast ballots.

Montgomery,Alabama – Listen,now, to some of the stories making headlines in the WVAS newsroom this Tuesday, March 10,2009. Send your news items to Tana Shealey via e-mail at tshealey@alasu.edu or call the newsroom at 334-229-4783.

Montgomery, Alabama – Montgomery residents head to the polls Tuesday for a special election to name its next Mayor.

The mayoral election is being held to fill the seat left vacant by Bobby Bright, who won a seat in Congress. Interim Mayor, Charles Jinright is not running for the post.

The six candidates for Mayor include: Michael Briddell, Willie Cook, Jon Dow, Jay King, Scott Simmons and Todd Strange.

Polls open at 7:00 a.m. Tuesday morning. WVAS will have election results when the polls close tomorrow night beginning in the 7 o'clock hour.