Burn ban still in place for now; commissioners consider Chickasaw requests

Posted by John Small | Aug 31, 2022 | Main News

By John A. Small Managing Editor Last week’s rains came as a welcome relief for local residents - but were not quite enough just yet to rescind the current county-wide burn ban. During a special meeting Monday morning, the Johnston County Board of Commissioners voted 3-0 to leave the ban in place for an additional […]

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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.

Burn ban still in place for now; commissioners consider Chickasaw requests

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