County seeks funding for improved courthouse security

Posted by John Small | Jul 24, 2019 | Main News

The Johnston County Board of Commissioners voted this week to turn down grant funding for a proposed upgrade to courthouse security, calling the funding insufficient to meet the project’s needs. During their regular weekly meeting Monday morning, commissioners Jacky Hallmark, Mike Thompson and T.J. Clements announced that the county had been approved for a security […]

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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.

County seeks funding for improved courthouse security

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