A farewell to friends, plus assorted odds and ends

Posted by John Small | Dec 13, 2018 | Small Talk

The Tishomingo community lost two good friends in the past week. Wendell Blair was a longtime businessman, school board member and, for many years, the “top Yellow Dog” with the Johnston County Democratic Party. Wendell used to come around the newspaper office to talk politics with me and the late Ray Lokey; most of those […]

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John Small

John A. Small is the Managing Editor and (with Publishers Tom and Mary Lokey) co-founder of the Johnston County Sentinel, a weekly newspaper headquartered in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. He came to Tishomingo (his mother’s birthplace) in 1991 and spent the next three and a half years as reporter and columnist for the Johnston County Capital-Democrat. Following a two-year stint as News Editor at the Durant Daily Democrat, he returned to the C-D as News Editor in 1997 and remained there until January of 2018, when the Sentinel was founded. To date his work as a journalist has earned him more than 220 awards from the Oklahoma Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press, the National Newspaper Association, and the Oklahoma Education Association.

A farewell to friends, plus assorted odds and ends

About The Author

John Small

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