BRIEFS. TWO ITEMS. Atlanta prepares for Trump grand jury annct; 2 new JEMC Foundation board members

FROM GEPORGIA NEWS NETWORK & THE GLORY 97.5 ONLINE NEWS DESK

*Several streets around the Fulton County Courthouse and Government Center will be closed beginning on Monday until Aug. 18. Those plans were announced Thursday ahead of an expected indictment of former President Donald Trump by the Fulton County district attorney which has been investigating Trump’s alleged attempts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election.

*Dee Anderson of Gwinnett County and Towanna Johnson of Barrow County are the newest members of the Jackson EMC Foundation Board of Directors. They were recently each elected to three-year terms.

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.