County sides with landowners, rejects road closure request

Posted by John Small | Jun 17, 2020 | Main News

Local property owners scored a victory over an aggregate mining company this week, as the Johnston County Board of Commissioners voted to reject a request by U.S. Silica to close a portion of Sand Pit Road in District 3. Monday’s vote came following a public hearing at the commissioners’ weekly meeting, in which several of […]

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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 sides with landowners, rejects road closure request

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