Mayor absent as residents defend ornament display

Posted by John Small | Oct 23, 2019 | Main News

Several local residents and business owners attended Monday night’s meeting of the Tishomingo City Council to speak out in defense of a Main Street merchant’s outdoor display of metal lawn ornaments. But the council member those comments were intended for - the mayor whose criticism of the display sparked the controversy in the first […]

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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.

Mayor absent as residents defend ornament display

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