Proposed tax hike would put city’s rate among highest in state

Posted by John Small | Jun 9, 2021 | Main News

The Tishomingo City Council voted unanimously Monday night to call for a special election, asking city residents to approve the levying of an additional one cent excise (sales) tax. The funds, if approved, will reportedly be dedicated to capital expenditures and debt reduction service related to the planned construction of a new city wastewater plant. […]

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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.

Proposed tax hike would put city’s rate among highest in state

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