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  • The El Paso City of Council will vote on whether to approve the purchase of the former Bonham Elementary School on Tuesday. The sale is valued at $4.76 million dollars for the property and 13 acres on Cielo Vista Drive.
  • Just over one-hundred people were at the El Paso Community College campus in Far East El Paso for a viewing party of the partial solar eclipse. Students, children, parents and grandparents put their solar eclipse glasses on to look at the moon that slowly hid more and more of the sun’s rays on the Earth.
  • The El Paso Independent School District is planning to close several schools in response to a sharp decline in enrollment. Superintendent Diana Sayavedra told El Paso Matters the district doesn’t know how many of its 76 campuses will be affected.
  • Richard Dayoub from Thunderbird Management welcomes Fiean Liem, and Alex Mouquin to talk about tennis in El Paso.
  • The US Drug Enforcement Administration is expected to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug. The Associated Press reports the agency is moving to downgrade cannabis from a schedule 1 to a schedule 3 drug - like ketamine and codeine.
  • It’s the last day of Early voting in the May 4th election. Polls close at 7pm. Local voters will decide two bond proposals.
  • More problems with water service for residents of Santa Teresa and Sunland Park. The Camino Real Regional Utility Authority or CRRUA has issued an outdoor watering ban. Customers are also told to conserve water in their homes taking shorter showers for example.
  • Budgeters at the Ysleta Independent School District are anticipating an almost $14 million shortfall for next year's budget. Among challenges, the school district is adjusting to declining enrollment and a reduction in state and federal funding.
  • Early voting for the Primary runoff election begins today. Several democratic party races are being decided in a runoff including district attorney, Sheriff, and the District 77 State Representative seat.
  • We now know the cause of death of the man taken into police custody after he was wandering into traffic on Alameda last month.
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