 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. On September 1st personnel changes within the Kentucky State Police will be effective statewide as retirements and recent promotions become official. Here at post 9 in Pikeville a new post commander will step in as Captain Darren Stapleton assumes a new role. Effective September the 1st I will be transferring transferring to the Drug Enforcement and Special Investigations Unit which is based out of Lexington. It will be I will be over the eastern part of the state and Lieutenant Jennifer Sandler will be promoted to captain on September the 1st taking over as post commander here at Pikeville. Captain Stapleton a 19-year veteran of the state police originally from Elkhorn City says transferring out of post 9 this time was not an easy decision. I've been blessed to go through the ranks and each time I promoted I've left to go to another post for the promotion and then work my way back to Pikeville and this is my fourth trip back to Pikeville so it's it's home to me and it's a bittersweet. Lieutenant Jennifer Sandlin has been at post 9 for the majority of her 13 years as a trooper and she says she looks forward to the new challenges. It's not that there's anything wrong with the way that anything that's going on at post now but you know I'd like to develop the philosophy you leave things better than the way that you found them and so you know that's really going to be my goal was you know if things are good let's make them great. Lieutenant Sandlin's promotion to captain and assignment as the new post 9 commander will become effective Thursday. Reporting in Pikeville for EKB News I'm Shannon Deskins.