*A 17-year-old from Gainesville has been charged with a shooting in Forsyth County Saturday night. It happened on Bethel Road. Eric Alonso Hernandez is charged with Aggravated Assault with a Gun, according to jail records. The victim was shot in the ankle, according to Stacie Miller, spokeswoman for the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office, who adds Hernandez was arrested later that evening in Gainesville.
*Flowery Branch appears ready to move ahead with the next phase of downtown redevelopment and creation of the post of Human Resources Director which is budgeted for in the FY2024 budget. Both items are on the agenda for Thursday’s city council meeting. You can get more information by accessing the meeting agenda here 7864a714-2c47-45fb-a1de-c9c8e1d21f20-8a7c3c74-303a-4a6e-aaf9-5d7ff405cd9f-1693936813.pdf (d3n9y02raazwpg.cloudfront.net)
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.
