Farmer Loses Re-Election Bid

Posted by John Small | Nov 7, 2018 | Main News, Political

The Johnston County Board of Commisioners will have two new faces when it convenes for its first meeting in January. Incumbent District 3 County Commissioner Melvin Farmer was narrowly defeated by Republican challenger T.J. Clements in Tuesday’s general election. Clements won by just over 51 percent of the total votes cast, 454 to 426. Farmer’s […]

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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.

Farmer Loses Re-Election Bid

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