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Christopher Fox Graham

Have the courage to send your views, not a form letter

Within hours of former President Donald Trump being convicted by a New York jury on 34 felony counts on Thursday, May 30, we received our first letter to the editor reacting to it, though the only one thus far. We...

Low viewership of City Council and other city meetings raises questions, especially why meetings last for hours

As the voice of Sedona and the Verde Valley, and Sedona’s newspaper of record for the last 60 years, we’re no stranger to filing public records requests with local, county and state governments, as well as federal agencies whose...

Bravo Fire burning north of Sedona, near Camp Navajo

The U.S. Forest Service and other agencies are responding to the Bravo Fire, now 1,400 acres s of 8:20 p.m. Friday, June 7, burning a half-mile south of Camp Navajo, west of Flagstaff and 21 miles north of Sedona,...

Warning: Scam from fraudulent number claims to Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office collecting court fees

The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office has been receiving phone calls and emails recently from residents of Yavapai County stating that they were contacted by someone identifying themselves as an employee of YCSO, according to actual YCSO Public Affairs and...

Oak Creek Canyon road closures now in effect until June 7

Drivers who would normally use State Route 89A at the switchbacks in Oak Creek Canyon north of Sedona will need to detour during daytime hours the week of June 3. An Arizona Department of Transportation rockfall mitigation safety project will...

Sedona Fire District crews put out brush fire near home in the Village of Oak Creek

Sedona Fire District crews responded to an interface fire near 95 Courthouse Butte Road in the Village of Oak Creek on Wednesday, May 29. The fire originated in the yard of a residential property before extending into the nearby vegetative...

Letter of advice to Sedona’s seniors as they graduate

To the graduating Class of 2024, I offer this advice. Wear sunscreen. It’s good advice I once heard in a Baz Luhrmann song. Don’t take yourself so seriously. You are your own worst critics and only you have to live with...

Sedona police ask for help locating armed robbery suspect

At 10:30 a.m., Friday, May 24, a suspect — identified by Sedona police as a Hispanic male, 5’8” to 5’10” tall, weighing 180 to 210 pounds, with black hair covered by a beanie-style hat, medium to fair skin tone...

‘Bean counters’ must tell Yavapai College ‘no’ to 3.5% tax hike

Update: Yavapai College Board approves tax hike Yavapai Community College District Governing Board voted 3-2 on Tuesday, May 21, to raise the Yavapai community college tax rate 3.5%, with Board Chairwoman and District 2 Representative Deb McCasland, of Prescott; District...

Celebrate mothers here and gone for the gift of your life

Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 12, the day when we celebrate our mothers, grandmothers, wives and daughters with brunches or breakfasts, flowers or just a phone call for those of us who live too far away to travel. 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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