Reopening of section of Gville road closed since Aug. delayed

A section of Allen Creek Road, closed since summer, will not reopen on schedule Dec. 4 as originally planned.

GAINESVILLE WATER RESOURCES ADVISORY:

“REVISED NOTICE
CITY OF GAINESVILLE WATER
RESOURCES DEPARTMENT
ROAD CLOSING
ALLEN CREEK ROAD between MONROE DRIVE and HALL
COUNTY’S PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY WILL…REOPEN FRIDAY, JANUARY
26th. TRAFFIC TO THE ALLEN CREEK SOCCER COMPLEX WILL
NOT BE EFFECTED BY THE ROAD CLOSURE. TRAFFIC TO HALL
COUNTY’S PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY WILL DETOUR AROUND
THE ROAD CLOSURE BY USING CANDLER HWY (SR 60),
FULENWIDER ROAD, AND JAMES SIMPSON BLVD. (NEWLY
CONSTRUCTED ROAD).”

(EDITOR’S NOTE: Detour map included with this posting.)

EARLIER STORY:

Section of Allen Creek Road to be closed for four months 97.5 Glory FM | North Georgia’s Family Radio Station (wgtjradio.com)

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.