Early voting ends Fri. for runoffs; Identity fraud arrest; New CEO at HSNEGA

*Early voting ends Friday for Tuesday’s runoffs in Georgia, including two in Hall County – for county commission chairman and a state court judgeship. If you have not voted early and plan to do so, click here for locations and times for early voting: Elections | Hall County, GA – Official Website

*A 19-year-old Gainesville man is being held on $19,500 bond following his arrest Wednesday on a single felony charge of aggravated identity fraud. Roni Pablo-Gomez allegedly used another person’s ID information in order to obtain employment. The Hall County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) says he presented that information while applying for a job at Gold Creek Foods in Gainesville May 31.

*Allison Mayfield has left her job as CEO at the Gainesville-based Humane Society of Northeast Georgia (HSNEGA). Mayfield has been replaced on an interim basis by Juan Cueto, the organization’s Vice President of Marketing and Development who was hired in early April.

About the Author

Ken Stanford is Online News Editor for GLORY 97.5, a position he has held since August 2022.

Ken was born in Moultrie, Georgia, and says he knew from the time he was 5 or 6 he wanted to be a “radio announcer.” That dream was realized when he was hired by Moultrie radio station WMTM in 1960 at the age of 15 as a weekend disc jockey. A 1963 graduate of Moultrie (now Colquitt County) High School, he has spent his whole career in Georgia working for stations in Atlanta, Marietta, and Gainesville – most recently as News Director for 40 years at WDUN in Gainesville. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force Reserves.

Ken retired in 2011 but came out of retirement last year to help GLORY, on a part-time basis, beef-up its online news presence.

He is the recipient of many Associated Press awards and is a former judge of state and national Associated Press broadcast news contests. In 2005, he was presented with the Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Association’s President’s Award for Excellence in Journalism and in 2019 was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame.

He lives in Gainesville with his wife of 52 years, the former Sandra McKnight of Clio, Alabama, and they have one child, a daughter, Lisa, who lives in Cumming with her family.