From The Archives: Hope is there… sometimes you have to squint to see it

Posted by John Small | Jul 6, 2022 | Small Talk

(Editor’s Note: The following “Small Talk” column was originally published in the July 2, 2020, edition of the Johnston County Sentinel. It is being reprinted this week in response to several reader requests received over the past week.) “These are the times that try men's souls...” When philosopher and author Patrick Henry first penned those […]

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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.

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From The Archives: Hope is there… sometimes you have to squint to see it

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