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Hiker rescued near midnight from 100-foot cliff on Bell Rock; with video

Yavapai County Sheriff's Office deputies responded to a call of a man stuck on a 100-plus foot cliff on Bell Rock at 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb 12. After realizing he was in a very dangerous location, deputies requested Yavapai...

Cyclist and artist Joel Eagan struck and killed by car on Dry Creek Road

Sedona resident Joel David Eagan, 54, was struck and killed in a vehicle-versus-bicycle collision at the intersection of Thunder Mountain Road and Dry Creek Road around 6:38 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 7. A Sedona Fire District ambulance from Station...

Chester ‘Chet’ Ross Linder

June 17, 1943 — Jan. 29, 2025 Chester “Chet” Ross Linder, 81, of Camp Verde, died Jan. 29. He was predeceased by his parents, Ethel and Clarence; his older brother, Ralph; and his daughter, Cynthia. He is survived by his wife, Mary;...

Wildland firefighters tackle 400-acre Brady Fire south of Prescott

The Prescott National Forest and Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management responded at 3 p.m., Monday Feb. 10, to a wildfire south of Mayer, near Pine Flats off Forest Road 67 for a 400-acre wildfire. The Prescott Hot Shots,...

Beware officials sharing fake data to score political points

Citizens require facts, honesty and integrity from government institutions; otherwise, the whole system begins to collapse as citizens begin to distrust things they know to be true from empirical evidence and the testimony of their own eyes. We know that...

Sedona City Council’s silence on proposed water rate hike shows who really matters

The Sedona City Council opted to take no action to oppose or make a statement about Arizona’s Water Company’s proposed rate increase, which will increase water costs for Sedona residents by at least 36%, according to the utility’s officials. The...

City survey offered leading questions on future plans for Sedona Cultural Park

The city of Sedona closed its Sedona Cultural Park survey on Sunday, Jan. 19. The city is referring to the area as the Western Gateway, although several residents contacted us to ask if they had the correct survey about...

Wildfire is constant but manageable threat to our region

Sedona and Verde Valley residents have watched with concern the Eaton and Palisades wildfires in the Los Angeles area of California, which have burned thousands of homes to the ground and displaced tens of thousands of people. While...

Crater Sinks Prescribed Burn targets 1,700 acres 13 miles north of Sedona

The Arizona State Department of Forestry and Fire Management and Coconino National Forest fire managers have taken advantage of current weather conditions and begin work on a highly visible prescribed burn project southwest of Flagstaff, starting Wednesday, Jan. 22. The...

The eeriness of that post-election silence

Most governing bodies in the state of Arizona began their work for the 2025-26 legislative cycle within the last two weeks after swearing in newly-elected officials in December and early January, although municipal governments did so after their respective...

About Me

Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rock News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been a guest contributor in Editor & Publisher magazine and featured in the LA Times, New York Post and San Francisco Chronicle. He lectures on journalism, media law and the First Amendment and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. Retired U.S. Army Col. John Mills, former director of Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy, and International Affairs referred to him as "Mr. Slam Poet."
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