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Final congressional and legislative adjustments made

With Arizona’s redistricting lines drawn and now headed to the U.S. Department of Justice for approval, congressional candidates are beginning to adjust and declare themselves for office. The declarations from most of Arizona’s state legislative candidates, however, have yet...

Primaries could decide congressional races this year

As it now stands, Verde Valley voters may not have much of a voice in who represents them in Congress unless they vote in the Republican or Democratic primaries this year. Redrawn congressional district lines that split the Verde...

County: Internet not evidence of code violations

A website is not a sign — thus, websites, Facebook events and social media invitations cannot be used as evidence of a land use violation. That was the argument Anne Walker Marchal’s attorney William P. Ring made before the...

David Wile murder trial begins

The trial began Jan. 5 for 50-year-old David Roy Eidson, the man arrested in connection with the death of former Sedona resident David Ian Wile. The three-week trial is expected to conclude Wednesday, Jan. 25, according to Maricopa County...

Fire destroys Sedona mobile home

Sedona Fire District firefighters tackled a home fire in the Sunset Village Mobile Home Park after 8 a.m., Sunday, Jan. 15. Firefighters had some difficulty finanlly extinguishing the flare-ups due to the volume of items the man had inside...

New program maps crimes committed in county

Where was the nearest assault? How many DUIs happen between Sedona and Cottonwood? How safe is our new neighborhood? Yavapai County residents now have access to that information through an easy-to-use, Web browser-based mapping program. On Jan. 5, the...

Sedona Boys & Girls branch looking for leader

The Sedona branch of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Northern Arizona is looking for a new leader. Since the departure of former Branch Director John Lupo in November, the Sedona branch has been run on an interim basis...

Cops investigate double murder scene

Statewide media swarmed the homicide scene Friday, Jan. 6, just south of Sedona while forensics crews attempted to salvage evidence in what the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office declared a double homicide. YCSO deputies and the Arizona Department of Public...

Three Sedona events make top 25 list for all of Arizona

Three of Sedona’s annual festivals made Arizona Highways magazine’s list of top 25 events for 2012. The Sedona International Film Festival, Chamber Music Sedona’s Red Rock Music Festival and Tlaquepaque’s Festival of Lights all made the top 25 in...

Ruth Ruby Elliott

Ruth Ruby Elliott March 20, 1920 — Dec. 21, 2011 Ruth Ruby Elliott died  Dec. 21. She was born March 20, 1920, in Canada. A celebration of her life was held at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 25, at 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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