PLANNED HALL T-SPLOST DEAD; HCSO BUSY WITH TRAFFIC-HALTING ACCIDENTS

*Plans for a Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (T-SPLOST) referendum in Hall County this year were scrapped by the Hall County Commission Thursday night. The reason: a months-long disagreement between the county and Rest Haven and Buford over divvying up proceeds the tax, if approved by voters, would have generated.

*Though detailed information was not immediately provided, Hall County sheriff’s deputies were busy with two accidents late Thursday afternoon two major roads. One occurred on I-985 near Friendship Road and closed both northbound lanes for a time. The second happened on Candler Road between Bolman Road and Baker Road and halted all traffic in both directions.

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.