 Ring in the New Year with amazing savings from Appalachian Wireless. Get the Galaxy S7 for just $49.99 when you sign a renew a two-year service agreement. Better service, bigger savings. That's today's Appalachian Wireless. There were two fatalities today across the region and at least one of those fatalities was confirmed as weather-related. Also, numerous wrecks were reported throughout our coverage area and many schools canceled classes or dismissed early due to snowfall and slick roads. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is reminding motorists of the importance of keeping safe during the winter months. The first step is making sure your car is weather-ready. You need to make sure you've got good tire pressure because that makes a difference in your friction and whether or not you can stay on the road if you do start to slide. Make sure you have at least a half a tank of gas. If somebody else is crossways of the road and you have to stop, you don't want to sit there with the engine off and freeze because you didn't have enough gas in the vehicle. You want to make sure your headlights and tail lights are clean, that you have really good windshield wipers and that you start sooner. The Highway Department began preparing for snowfall since October with training for each employee. After training, each maintenance garage has been gearing up for the winter ahead. Getting everything installed, making sure it's in good working order, making any repairs that's needed. And also getting all of our supplies stocked. We are fully stocked with salt, liquid calcium, and we manufacture our own salt brim. We have plenty of that stocked up as well. And we have over 100 trucks out on the road in our 7-County area that are plowing and treating roads. Even though the snow was predicted for today, the salt trucks were on the road in force yesterday and throughout the night, preparing the roads for today's travelers. We spent yesterday pre-treating mostly our rural roads with salt brine. And that does a couple things for us. One thing, it keeps the snow from bonding to the pavement so it's much easier to clean at the end of the event. The salt trucks will remain on the roads as long as the snow is falling. Reporting in Pikeville for EKB News, I'm Shelby Steele.