County seeks to save local DHS office

Posted by John Small | Jun 3, 2020 | Main News

The Johnston County Board of Commissioners is turning to top elected state officials in hopes of saving the local Department of Human Services office from closure. During a special meeting held late Monday morning, commissioners Jacky Hallmark, Mike Thompson and T.J. Clements voted 3-0 to approve the submission of letters in support of the local […]

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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 to save local DHS office

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John Small

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