Voters approve one-cent sales tax renewal; Barnes re-elected despite felony charges

Posted by John Small | Apr 3, 2019 | Main News, Political

Johnston County voters gave a “thumbs up” to the renewal of the county’s existing one-cent sales tax for support of county offices, while incumbent municipal officers in Tishomingo and Mannsville kept their seats in Tuesday’s county-wide elections. With all 14 of the county’s voting precincts reporting shortly before prestige Tuesday night, the Oklahoma State election […]

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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.

Voters approve one-cent sales tax renewal; Barnes re-elected despite felony charges

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