A bright light fades; years later, the pain and anger remain

Posted by John Small | Jun 3, 2020 | Small Talk

The recent tragic news out of neighboring Bryan County, about the alcohol-related vehicle collision that claimed the lives of four teenage boys over the Memorial Day weekend, brought to mind memories of a similar tragedy that robbed me of a dear friend back in the 1980s, when I was still living in Illinois. It is […]

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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.

A bright light fades; years later, the pain and anger remain

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