 The Appalachian Advantage plan is the simpler, better way to get the phone you actually want instead of paying hundreds of dollars up front. Simply pay the taxes up front and a few extra dollars a month and get the phone you really want. It's called the Appalachian Advantage available at Appalachian Wireless. Pike County saw many seats change hands during election night. One of those being for the county clerk position. I mean it's, I'm still overwhelmed. I've not really had a chance to let it sink in. You know, it was an exciting night last night. You know, I had some friends win, I had some friends lose, you know. People in Pike County obviously have got their opinion on what they want and they were ready for a change. Voters turned out to elect Daryl Pugh to the county clerk position of Pike County. Pugh, who won with 8,612 votes, defeated his opponent and former county clerk Ronda Taylor by nearly 1,400 votes. Well, yeah, I think the message was, you know, across the board because all the other candidates we all won by about the same margin. So, you know, people got together and they, I think families got together and talked about it and groups got together and there was a, the issue on abortion was on there. So, you had a lot of religious people that had an opinion on that and evidently were what they wanted. Ronda and I have always got along. We've always been cordial to each other and I do believe that she has, as I do, the best interest of Pike County at heart. It's just we have a different philosophy on how to get there. Pugh has discussed his plans for change and how to better Pike County. As we all know, that live here in Pike County, Pike County is a very large county. You've got three branch offices in the main office. Things have changed in downtown Pikeville. You've got the hospital that's about to build in next door to the courthouse that takes a lot of the parking that people were using for the courthouse. So, I think that if we can utilize the branch offices to get a lot of traffic back to them, it's closer to people. You know, sometimes when decisions was made, gas was less than $2, now it's three something. It was up to five. So, having the branch offices open closer to the people where they don't have to spend their time and money coming to the town where there's no parking at this time, I think is a step in the right direction. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Jameson Killen.