Smith will not seek re-election; Undersheriff Dodd first to announce plans to run as successor

Posted by John Small | Apr 1, 2020 | Main News

For the second time, Jon Smith is hanging up his badge. In a statement released on social media and e-mailed to the Sentinel last Friday, March 27, Smith called his career as sheriff a “great adventure” but said it was time to step down. “I have always stressed the fact and advised people who work […]

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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.

Smith will not seek re-election; Undersheriff Dodd first to announce plans to run as successor

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