 On Friday, September 8th, Governor Andy Beshear made an appearance in Pikeville at PMC's Workforce Innovation Center to announce over $7.3 million in investments for Pike County. The investments include expanding the Lawson Cancer Center, adding a new volunteer fire department and resurfacing roads. Mountaintop News spoke with Beshear to get more details. Today, we brought $7 million plus in investments for Pike County. After bringing about $5 million to Floyd County. These are critical projects like Project Heart, which is increasing the number of nurses here in Eastern Kentucky, but it's training Eastern Kentuckians to be nurses, creating really good jobs that have good paychecks and can support family. We also cut the ribbon on the newly renovated second floor of the Leonard Lawson Cancer Center, which means those battling something as difficult as cancer are going to be in state of the art facilities. We also invested in tourism and provided funding to build a volunteer fire station, so a really good day investing in the people of Eastern Kentucky. 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 got to jump on this deal right now. At Appalachian Wireless, we get you because we are you. We are Appalachian Wireless. The biggest announcement today was the awarding of $600,000 to Intermountain Cable. Those funds will be going toward adding high-speed internet to over 250 homes and businesses in the county. The biggest announcement we made today in terms of dollars is the expansion of internet access. Internet is now a necessity for every family. Its infrastructure is important as our roads and our bridges. Today we presented over $2 million that are going to expand high-speed internet access to hundreds of homes here in Pike County. It's part of the biggest public sector investment we've ever made, and over the coming years we think we're going to be able to hook up every home and every business across the state. That's just really exciting. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Colum.