In the spirit of the season… this one’s for you, Ray

Posted by John Small | Oct 30, 2019 | Small Talk

Years ago I shared the following story in the pages of the Johnston County Capital-Democrat, where Publisher Ray Lokey did me the honor of declaring it one of his all-time favorite Halloween stories. At his request I re-printed the story several times over the years - including in the Durant Daily Democrat during a brief […]

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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.

In the spirit of the season… this one’s for you, Ray

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