City, county STAR Students, Teachers named; tie for county titles

There was a tie for the county title Tuesday when the Gainesville and Hall County STAR Students and Teachers were named.

The county honors go to student Joshua Warren of Flowery Branch High School with STAR
Teacher Richard Herndon and from East Hall High, STAR Student Colton Howell with STAR Teacher Daniel
Stainback. The Gainesville winners are STAR Student Joseph Alvarez of Gainesville High and STAR
Teacher Chandra Karnati.

They all will now compete for region honors and the right to move on to the state competition. The University of North Georgia’s College of Education will host the Region 2 event March 22. Region 2 consists of 12 counties or school systems: Dawson, Fannin, Gainesville City, Gilmer, Habersham, Hall, Lumpkin, Pickens, Rabun, Stephens, Towns, White, and Mountain Ed. Charter School
System.

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.