Another Superior Court judge candidate; UNG students learn, use 'precision agriculture'

*Hall County State Court Judge John Breakfield intends to run for the post, according to a posting on his Facebook page. Judge Breakfield, who was elected to his State Court judgeship in 2016, joins at least two other announced candidates for the post, which is being vacated by Judge Kathleen Gosselin, who announced in September her plans to retire at the end of 2024. Click here for earlier story: UPDATE: Judge Gosselin to retire next year; hopefuls lining up to succeed her (wgtjradio.com)

*Two students in the Lewis F. Rogers Institute for Environmental and Spatial Analysis (IESA) at the University of North Georgia (UNG) are already applying what they have learned in their classes “to make an impact in the emerging field of precision agriculture.” Wyn Huey and Michael McGee hosted a drone demonstration recently at UNG’s Gainesville Campus for Jane Hemmer, a Hall County Soil and Water Conservation District board member and UNG Foundation trustee; other board members; students; and community members. Read more about it here: Students learn, use precision agriculture (ung.edu)

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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.