 After two months since the resignation of former Pikeville City manager Philip Ellswick, a replacement has been found. Former Pike County Judge Executive Reggie Hickman was appointed to the position on Friday, September 1st. Mountaintop News spoke with Hickman to hear his thoughts on this accomplishment. I'm very excited to get started. The process has gone very smoothly to get to this point. What we'll do is we'll get on that first day, we'll start to get to know our management team and understand where their thoughts are about how the city needs to operate on day to day basis. Clearly we'll work with the mayor and the commission and deal with a vision moving forward for the city. Change is what it is and hopefully I can just add to something that is really already really really good. If not great. At Appalachian Wireless, we have the best service and the best deals right now. Save up to $500 on iPhone 13th and 14th, all models, all gigabytes with trade in. Maybe go for an iPhone 12 for a penny, a penny with a two-year contract. We're not leaving out Samsung, save up to $350 on select Samsung devices including the S23. It's a win-win. This month at Appalachian Wireless, the service, the savings, y'all gotta jump on this deal right now. At Appalachian Wireless, we get you because we are you. We are Appalachian Wireless. Hickman says his experience working with the fiscal court will help play to his strengths in this new role. In the meantime, he expresses his thanks to those who have supported him. The last four and a half years working for the fiscal court and Judge Jones, that I can't say enough good things about Judge Jones, the opportunity he gave me in that deputy judge position, his goal I think is very similar to the goals here in terms of trying to run government as much as possible, like a business. You may not get all the way there, but it's important to do that. That is one of my core beliefs as well. Those contacts and the things that we've done in the last four and a half years, I think will benefit everybody. Very humbling, to be honest, and very gratifying at the same time to be at the top of that list was very gratifying, very exciting, and I can't say enough about the commission and the interview process. Those guys are tough interviewers, but it went very well and I'm very excited and very humbled by the opportunity. Reporting from Outantop News, I'm Nick Colm.