 This just in August is hotter than ever at Appalachian Wireless as they are slashing all normal contract pricing on all smartphones by 50% when you sign up for service. Better service, bigger saving, serving you for the last 25 years at Appalachian Wireless. After a week's long battle, the senior citizen centers at Phelps and Marlbone are slated to reopen. The other senior citizen centers in Pike County, however, are paying for that decision. The Pike Senior Citizens Board voted last week to reopen the centers. To do so, the schedules for the other centers in the county will be reduced to three days per week. We didn't find any funding. We shut everybody down to three days except for Pikeville and we left it at five because the state makes us have one of five days a week and see Pikeville gives them like thirty thousand dollars a year at Pikeville. So we decided to leave Pikeville at five days and everybody else three. Most of them was like four days and Marlbone was already three days and the rest of them were at four. The situation has caused controversy and hot tempers, but Taylor said it's time to move on. He also said the other victims of the situation are those receiving home delivered meals. I mean, we hated to do this before, you know, we hated doing it anyway. We didn't want to shut no center down and lose anything from this, you know, letting people have a place to come. But when you have to do budget cuts, you know, you have to do what you've got to do. The saddest part about all this deal is, you know, we're opening them back up, but we will be losing home delivery meals to the people out of these centers that we shut down the three days. We will be losing five thousand four hundred seventy meals won't be going out a year for these home delivery meals that we're delivering. That's the sad part of all this. You know, I hated that to happen, but at least we've opened the two centers back up. Taylor said home deliveries have continued at Phelps and Marlbone following the initial closures of those centers and he anticipates Phelps and Marlbone will be open again in about three weeks. He also said a new director at Phelps has not yet been named reporting in Pike County for EKB news. I'm Chris Anderson.