Tishomingo voters reject sales tax increase

Posted by John Small | Aug 11, 2021 | Main News

The people have spoken - and the answer was “No.” Voters in Tishomingo came out against the city’s proposed levying of an additional one cent excise (sales) tax in Tuesday's special election. According to figures obtained by the Sentinel from the Johnston County Election Board, and later posted on the Oklahoma State Election Board’s website, […]

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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.

Tishomingo voters reject sales tax increase

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