*The Georgia State Patrol (GSP) says there were no injuries in a four-vehicle, chain-reaction crash that snarled afternoon rush hour traffic on I-985 near Flowery Branch Tuesday. Troopers said Thursday the wreck evolved about 3:45 when traffic began slowing because of a back-up of cars and trucks that had slowed because of a brush fire. EARLIER STORY: Brush fire, multi-vehicle wreck on 985 plays havoc with p.m. rush hour 97.5 Glory FM | North Georgia’s Family Radio Station (wgtjradio.com)
*An overturned tractor trailer that was carrying chicken “parts” according to the Hall County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) closed a part of Thompson Bridge Road near Lee Road for more than three hours overnight Wednesday. The driver said the rig flipped when another vehicle passed it and then “cut him off.” HCSO filed no charges against the driver who was not injured. A HCSO spokesman added “It looks like cleanup started at approximately 1 a.m. and was complete by roughly 4:30 a.m.”
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.
