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Sedona Red Rock High School’s Athletic Hall of Fame Committee names 9 athletes to inaugural list

The Sedona Red Rock High School Athletic Hall of Fame Committee is excited to announce its inaugural class for 2025, which includes some of the top athletes to ever walk the halls in the history of the program. SRRHS HOF...

Ethics govern what we journalists do to report the news

We have a lot of discussions in our newsroom about how to cover stories, the ethics of reporting on sensitive topics or persons like minors, victims, confidential sources or criminal suspects and how to handle sensitive information provided to...

Acts of violence don’t help change political stances

On March 30, the Flagstaff Police Department issued a press release about a March 19 road rage incident that resulted in violence. The incident began at Butler Avenue and Milton Road and continued along Route 66 through the heart...

Political civility lost in era of memes and sound bytes

The respect for civility in political discourse has suffered over the last few decades. Political debate, negotiation and compromise in legislative chambers and between legislatures and executives was the norm before cable news put a 24-hour spotlight on the...

We applaud Sedona City Council for funding Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center in Uptown

On March 11, the Sedona City Council took a positive step toward repairing its relationship with Sedona’s business community and our workers by again funding the Uptown Visitor Center at 80% of its costs and expenses for the second...

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...

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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