 Appalachian Wireless has a plan to make your life simpler. It's called forward pay. No contract, no credit check, no problem. Plans start at $19.99 a month and include unlimited talk and text, or ticket to the max with unlimited data plus for only $89.99, which has 50 gig of high-speed data because we are you. We are Appalachian Wireless. Monday, September 19th, Governor Andy Beshear presented $4,113,381 in funding to complete phase one of the Dawkins Line Rail Trail. Phase one includes paving 24 miles of the gravel trail from Johnson County to McGoffin County, paving the parking lot at Jennings Creek and Jane Beshear Trailheads, and repairing drainage structures, signs, and bollards. The Dawkins Line Rail Trail is a 36-mile multi-use trail used by hikers, walkers, bikers, and more. Redeveloped from the 1900s-era rail line used to Hawk Timber and later coal, the Dawkins Line Rail Trail was opened in 2013. It remains the state's longest rail-to-trail project. I'm no more than a little bit about this amazing project and how it came about, because I'm proud to say my mom, former First Lady Jane Beshear, was a champion for this work. Construction on the trail will begin in October with the plan to pave two miles before the end of 2022. Phase one is projected to be completed by summer of 2023. This does so much for our area, and I mean it for the area. It's not just because it's physically placed in Johnson and McGoffin Counties and in Brethit Counties. It means so much to our entire area, because it does two things for us. One, it promotes recreation, health, and wellness of our own people, but it also is a recruitment for folks to come here and see what we already know. We're all natives. This is our home. We love it, and we want more people to know how good a place it is to be, and this is just another way for us to grow our economy. We're gonna promote our small businesses. Those folks who have those ideas and those visions, we're gonna help them cultivate those to actually come to pass. Phase two of the project will be awarded in spring of 2023. Phase two will focus on constructing a trail over the Carver Tunnel to connect two ends of the trail in McGoffin County, as well as paving the remaining 12 miles to the end of the trail. For Mountain Top News, I'm Breanna Robinson.