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Attorney for Sedona Deputy Chief Kwitkin & Sgt. Leon sends complaint about Police Chief Foley

Attorney James Ledbetter, of the Cottonwood-based Ledbetter Law Firm, has sent a letter to the city of Sedona that he has been retained by two Sedona Police Department officers who are alleging a hostile work environment exists within the...

Yavapai College Governing Board to ignore Sedona and the Verde Valley as a permanent policy

On Friday, March 16, we published a story about the Yavapai College Governing Board meeting on Jan. 16, at which the board discussed ending in-person meetings in the Verde Valley and conducting all future community college meetings in Prescott...

Thomas ‘Tom’ S. Goelitz

May 14, 1956 — Feb. 19, 2024 Thomas “Tom” Sullivan Goelitz, 67, of Sedona, died Feb. 19. He moved to Sedona in 2001 with his ex-wife, Carrie, where he raised two children, volunteered with the Eagle Scouts and his church and...

Sunshine Week highlights access to public records

“We the people” is the opening phrase of the U.S. Constitution that set the tone for how our nation and national government saw itself. It signifies that all Americans from the president to members of Congress to small-town mayors...

Woman dies in late-night fire on Tuesday, second fire extinguished at site late Wednesday

A woman died in a “devastating structure fire” in a Sedona mobile home park late on Tuesday, March 12. The Sedona Fire District responded to a fire at the Sunset Mobile Home Park, between Sunset and Shelby Drives, that was...

Enjoy St. Patrick’s Parade on Jordan Road March 16

While Sunday, March 17, is St. Patrick’s Day, Sedona’s nearly annual St. Patrick’s Parade will be held this Saturday, March 16. Since the parade moved off State Route 89A to Jordan Road in Uptown, annual estimated attendance ranges between...

Get ready for six weeks of spring break tourists

The Sedona International Film Festival ended last week and traffic on our roads was pretty well managed and rela­tively light for this time of year. There weren’t too many backups related to the festival and only delays heading into...

Speed of Forest Road work shows efficiency of Sedona in Motion

We are impressed, as everyone in Sedona should be, at the speed with which the Forest Road Extension has undergone construction. Beginning in spring 2022, city workers and the contractor, Fann Contracting Inc., began working on the road. Most...

Democratic process? It is unnecessary in this Sedona asylum, where the inmates run the city

The city of Sedona began discussing a car camp for homeless workers at the Sedona Cultural Park in January. On Jan. 9, council directed staff to begin planning for the camp by a voice vote, but did not legally or...

House Bill 2038 would make your public & private recordings felonies

People record all sorts of public and private events for their social media accounts, family gatherings, sporting events, school plays, meetings, get-togethers, interviews, lectures and talks. If you want to record your experiences for your own enjoyment — or...

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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