Dawson Co. road closing for five months Feb. 10

A Dawson County road will be closed for about five months starting a week from Monday.

Dawson County has posted the following on its Facebook page as a reminder about the project: “Don’t forget that in TWO WEEKS, Shoal Creek Road will be closed for 150 days to replace the bridge.”

In addition, the county says there are future plans to repaving the entire road and add a roundabout.

EARLIER STORY. POSTED JAN. 13: A three-million-dollar contract has been okayed by the Georgia Department of Transportation Board of Directors for the construction of a new bridge on Shoal Creek Road at Shoal Creek in Dawson County. The work has an expected completion date of November 30.

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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.