Month-long lane closures coming to I-85 in Banks Co.

Nightly month-long lane closures begin next week on I-85 in Banks County.

GA. DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION ADVISORY:

“WHAT: Georgia Department of Transportation (Georgia DOT) will be performing maintenance on I-85 Northbound. The concrete slab replacement and spall repair will close one lane and the shoulder and occur early in the week weather permitting.

WHEN: Starting Monday, August 5. 2024 through the month of August. Slab replacement will occur Mondays through Thursdays from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. weather permitting.

WHERE: I-85 northbound milepost 150-156. This is between US 441 and State Route 63 Right lane and the shoulder will be closed. This is in between US 441 to just north of SR 63.

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.