Lumpkin sheriff plans to seek new term; new program at Brenau; Habersham BOC elects chairman, vice-chairman

*Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard has announced plans to run for re-election this year.

*Brenau University has kicked off the semester with a new degree program: risk management and insurance. Brenau is one of four schools in the state to offer this degree program, made possible through a $50,000 course development grant from the Spencer Educational Foundation and support from the Risk & Insurance Management Society. More details can be found here: Brenau offers new degree program in risk management

*The Habersham County Board of Commissioners (BOC) has elected board chairman and vice-chairman for the new year. Ty Akins was re-elected chairman and Bruce Harkness was named to a new term as vice chairman.

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.