 Appalachian Wireless now has new forward pay prices where you can pay up front and get the data and features you design. Five gigabytes of data, just $39.99. Unlimited, just $79.99. Better service, bigger savings. That's today's Appalachian Wireless. As officials continue to try to solve the puzzle of how best to protect students at school, Pike County is moving forward with placing deputies in the county's five high schools. Beginning Thursday deputies will be assigned to each of Pike County's five county high schools, and they will also serve the elementary and middle schools in those high schools areas. We will base those deputies at the high schools, however they will be servicing all of the schools, and they will actually be visiting all of the schools every day. And this evening we've actually met with the high school principals, and we will be placing five deputies in our schools in the morning. Pike County Sheriff Rodney Scott said the placement of the deputies is a temporary solution, and will bridge the gap to some volunteering school staff members being deputized and armed in the schools. That's about the best we can do. We don't have the personnel right now or the equipment or the vehicles to be at every school. Most of this seems to be happening at high schools, so we're going to try to make a presence. At every high school, you know, until we get this other ready to go. Superintendent Reid Adkins said any volunteering staff member would have to be heavily vetted before being allowed to have a gun in school. Who are you going to choose? How are you going to choose these people? And that's really the big thing for us. Again, there will be an extremely extensive vating process. We will make sure that these people are qualified and ready, because as I said, I drop my children off every morning in the Pike County school system, as do several other parents. But until then, Adkins said he is glad deputies will be in Pike County schools. We're all highly concerned with the safety of our students, and we're taking major steps to try to protect them. We certainly appreciate Sheriff Scott and Sheriff's Department for actually helping us with the situation. Currently, there is no timeline for when schools in Pike County could have deputized and armed school staff members. In Pikeville, Chris Anderson, EKB News.