911 head seeks better address display

Posted by John Small | Jan 9, 2019 | Main News

The coordinator of Johnston County’s 911 emergency telephone system is urging county residents to clearly mark their house or driveway with a reflective 911 address sign. “Smart phones and GPS are great and are widely used in today’s society,” 911 Coordinator Lanette Coppedge told the Sentinel this week. “However, all do not work effectively in […]

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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.

911 head seeks better address display

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