Hall Co. seeks public input & a Jackson Co. student & Lumpkin Co. official honored

*As Hall County nears the completion of its Unified Development Code and the update to its Comprehensive Plan, one final round of public input and feedback is planned: Next Saturday at the Gainesville Chicken Festival 11:00-4:00 at Lake Lanier Olympic Park.

County officials will be located just outside the event gates offering information on proposed regulations, which would govern county zoning, subdivisions and stormwater, while taking public comment.

*Syon Schlecht a student at Empower College and Career Center in Jackson County has been named College and Career Academy Student of the Year by the Technical College System of Georgia.

*Lumpkin County Coroner Mark Cox has been named state Coroner of the Year by the Georgia Coroners Association.

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.