>>>>FROM THE CITY OF GAINESVILLE<<<<

Partial Dixon Drive closure set 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. daily starting Aug. 7

Dixon Dr Detour TR-Location Map

GAINESVILLE, Ga. (Aug. 3, 2023) – To help expedite the replacement of old water and sewer mains, Dixon Drive between Wessell Road and Bradford Street will have a daytime closure to non-residents starting Monday, Aug. 7.

The closure, considered phase No. 1 of a multiphase action plan, will take effect from 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. and last for approximately four weeks. Phase No. 2 will call for the closure of Dixon Drive between Bradford Street and Holly Drive.

To bypass the latest Dixon Drive closure, motorists can use the following detours (see attached map):

If turning from Green Street onto Holly Drive > Piedmont Road > Bradford Street > Stillwood Drive > Wessell Road > Dixon Drive OR Holly Drive > Piedmont Road > Bradford Street > Ridgewood Avenue > Wilshire Road
If turning from Green Street onto Ridgewood Avenue > Wilshire Road OR Ridgewood Avenue > Bradford Street > Stillwood Drive > Wessell Road > Dixon Drive

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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.