New Barrow CFO; Forsyth water quality report; Lanier boating accident, BUIs

*Trey Wood is Barrow County’s new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Wood currently serves as Finance Director for the Madison County Board of Education. Previously, he held similar roles with Jackson County Government and Habersham County Government.

*The Forsyth County Department of Water & Sewer 2024 Water Quality Report is now available for viewing and it can be found by clicking here. County officials say it shows Forsyth met all U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and state drinking water health standards in 2023. The City of Gainesville’s report will not be available until June 1.

*One person was slightly injured Sunday night when two personal watercraft collided on Lake Lanier near Buford. The state Department of Natural Resources also says there had been five Boating Under the Influence (BUI) arrests made on Lanier through Sunday night.

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.