That long ago Saturday we flipped over our canoe…

Posted by John Small | May 5, 2021 | Small Talk

Hearing reports of last weekend’s successful Pennington Creek Regatta - coupled with the fact that this Wednesday, May 5, marked the 43rd anniversary of the day my wife Melissa and I first started dating - brought to mind memories of the one and only time I ever went canoeing. I hadn’t known then that it […]

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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.

That long ago Saturday we flipped over our canoe…

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