 At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. You'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. The City of Pikeville will soon be implementing a much-requested quality of life change. Beginning early 2023, citizens of Pikeville will have access to fiber broadband internet provided by Intermountain Cable. The partnership between the City and IMC has been in the works for a few years now and will soon bring about big plans. Well, the project began a few years ago when Kentucky Wired was announced. And the City was going to kind of piggyback off the Kentucky Wired middle mile and construct our own fiber network. And then with delays and things of that nature, we started searching for somebody else that would just build our own network. So we issued requests for proposals a number of times and received responses, but we didn't really find the model that we were looking for. So ultimately, we were able to reach an agreement with Intermountain Cable. Ellswick says this is a big step forward for both residents and businesses within Pikeville. Soon after the installation, plans to expand fiber internet access beyond the City will be put into motion. And we're doing the project in three phases. So the first phase is the downtown area and right around the horseshoe as we refer to it, the Hammond Boulevard area. And then the second phase and third phase will be more on the periphery of town. And those will happen, you know, after completion of this project. You can go to gearheartfiber.com and you can search your address, see if you're in phase one. And if you're in phase one, you can request service from that website. Well, the project's really important to Pikeville, not just because of homes and businesses' need for reliable quality high-speed internet. But it's important as we seek to bring new businesses to town as remote workers perhaps are looking for somewhere to locate. You know, having gigabit speed in the city fiber-based is very important to those folks that might be wanting to locate here. And so many businesses that are already here. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Collum.