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City Council candidates address tourism and economy at forum

Tourism and its economic benefits topped a Sedona City Council candidate forum Monday, Feb. 13, hosted by the Sedona Chamber of Commerce, Sedona Main Street Program and Sedona Lodging Council. Vying for three open seats on council are four...

City hires SFD’s business manager Karen Daines

Sedona’s newly hired assistant city manager is a familiar face. Village of Oak Creek resident Karen Daines, currently the Sedona Fire District’s business manager, will begin her new job at City Hall just down the street from her old...

Photos reveal history of area

Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk wants to leave a legacy for the Verde Valley while celebrating the Arizona Centennial. That legacy will be unveiled on the walls at the Yavapai County Attorney’s Office in Camp Verde on Friday, Feb....

Ann Kirkpatrick pounds campaign trail

Two years after her defeat by a Republican challenger, Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick is looking to reclaim her seat representing Arizona’s Congressional District 1 in the U.S. House of Representatives. Kirkpatrick said that after her defeat, she focused on law...

Suspect found guilty of David Wile’s murder

After a three-week trial, it took a Maricopa County jury a little over four hours Jan. 26 to find David Roy Eidson guilty of the murder of former Sedona resident David Ian Wile. The 50-year-old Glendale man was convicted...

Sheriff’s office adds helicopter to its fleet of rescue vehicles

The next time Sedona residents hear a helicopter flying overhead searching for a lost hiker, they may notice markings never before seen on rotary aircraft in Yavapai County. Unveiled in late January, Sheriff Rescue One is...

Initiative changes who advances in elections

If voters approve it in November, a proposed citizen initiative could fundamentally change Arizona’s electoral process by sending the top two candidates into the general election regardless of their party affiliation. The Open Elections/Open Government Act initiative would give...

Candidates fight for Kyl’s U.S. Senate seat

While the delay in Arizona’s legislative and congressional redistricting has thrown a wrench of sorts into which state and federal candidates announce plans to run, the race for U.S. Senate is in full swing. Late last year, U.S. Sen....

Martin Fovard Terry

Martin Fovard Terry Jan. 16, 2012 Martin Fovard Terry, 86, of Sedona, died Jan. 16. He was preceded in death by brothers Jesse, Dave and Frank; sister Janet and stepbrother Walter H. Jr. He is survived by a host...

USFS burns wood piles in canyon on Tuesday

Pending favorable conditions Tuesday, Jan. 24, fire managers on the Coconino National forest are planning to continue pile burning efforts on the Woody Ridge and Oak Creek Canyon projects. Woody Ridge Project: 200 acres of piles...

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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