ADA says ‘no’ to ad valorem vote

Posted by John Small | Feb 27, 2019 | Main News

Murray State College’s hoped-for election to approve ad valorem funding in support of new technical and occupational programs has been dealt a mortal blow. The Johnston County Sentinel learned this week that Assistant District Attorney Fern Smith provided the Johnston County Board of Commissioners a written opinion, stating that the college cannot request that such […]

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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.

ADA says ‘no’ to ad valorem vote

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