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Christopher Fox Graham

Prep your home now for Arizona’s wildfire season

Fire season in Northern Arizona is a perennial threat to our homes, businesses, recreational spaces and landmarks. Fire season typically begins in May, intensifies at the tail end of the month, peaks in early June and, depending on monsoon...

Deadline nears to apply for Sedona’s first poet laureate

The city of Sedona and the Community Library Sedona are seeking applicants for Sedona’s inaugural Poet Laureate. Potential poets need to submit up to 10 pages of their original poetry by Wednesday, March 19. Sedona has had a long history...

SR 89A through Oak Creek Canyon reopened after snowstorm closed highway and northbound Interstate 17

The Arizona Department of Transportation reopened State Route 89A through Oak Creek Canyon this evening on Friday, March 7, after winter travel conditions subsided and snow plows were able to clear the roadway of snow. Continue to drive with caution. ORIGINAL...

Our new interactive map of Sedona’s short-term rentals provides transparency

Since the passage of Senate Bill 1350 in 2016, Sedona residents have expressed growing concerns over the number of short-term rentals within city limits. Vacation rentals, primarily those listed on platforms like Airbnb and Vrbo, but also those marketed...

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...

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. In January 2025, the International Astronomical Union formally named asteroid 29722 Chrisgraham (1999 AQ23) in his honor at the behest of Lowell Observatory, citing him as "an American journalist and longtime managing editor of Sedona Red Rock News. He is a nationally-recognized slam poet who has written and performed multiple poems about Pluto and other space themes."
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