 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. With the help of Generation West Virginia, Logan and Mingo County have secured a grant for $19 million from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. We were the coordinating entity that brought everyone together and defended and foundation supported that, so it's been months and months of long process. But now that we've received this grant, this $19 million will go to adding on almost 13,000 more households to what's already happening with AEP, their broadband expansion. AEP is currently constructing over 400 miles of middle-mile fiber to modernize its grid for electrical service in the region. This update will give GigaBeam Networks the ability to construct a high-speed broadband network. When we think about Southern West Virginia that has been dependent on coal for so long, and as we're thinking about a diversified economy and an economy that needs to support people in new ways, internet assets go to the pyramid. Generation West Virginia plans to continue to help under-service communities apply for grants and encourages other nonprofits to do the same. I hope that we can continue to get these broadband grants for more communities in the state, but I also think that this is, you know, underscoring the real need for this type of support. The non-profits and foundations can partner up to make sure that communities do have the capacity and do have the ability to get this federal money. With many jobs and schooling being partially or fully remote, broadband internet is vital and will give residents access to more opportunities without having to leave their communities. For Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.