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Expect to see umbrellas under sunny skies

Expect to see several umbrellas over the weekend, but not for rainy skies. Roughly 150 colorful umbrellas will reappear at Hillside Sedona along State Route 179 from Friday, Oct. 21, to Sunday, Oct. 23, as part of Umbrella Project....

R.D. Olson’s blues band ranked 3rd in state

One of Arizona’s top three blues bands is based in Sedona. That’s according to The R.D. Olson Band’s third-place ranking at the recent 21st annual Phoenix Blues Showdown, a statewide competition affiliated with the Memphis-based Blues Foundation, the country’s...

Another recycling bin torched in Verde Valley

Sedona Recycles hit fourth time by sixth fire in the area Someone torched another recycling bin in the Verde Valley. The sixth and most recent fire hit a Sedona Recycles paper recycling bin after 5 a.m., Sept. 25, across...

Cheryl Rogers-Barnett recalls life of her famous father, Roy Rogers

The Sedona International Film Festival recently joined in celebrating the 100th birthday of the late Western actor Roy Rogers. Although best known as a comedic, singing actor who starred in almost 100 films from the 1930s to 1950s, Rogers...

ADOT plans I-17 improvements

Expect traffic on Interstate 17 to get heavier. With the state’s estimated population growth over the next 20 years adding considerable strain on the existing highway, Arizona Department of Transportation is planning projects now to compensate. Consultants and ADOT...

HERO mission brings hope to Tibetan refugees in India

In the midst of a violent uprising and Chinese government crackdown in 1959, tens of thousands of Tibetans fled their homeland for temporary camps in India. More than 50 years later, most of those temporary refugee camps have become...

Study says Arizonans ignorant of how open space is funded

Public open space are absolutely vital to Arizonans for both communal and economic reasons, according to report released by Arizona Forward on Sunday, Sept. 11. Most Arizonans, however, say they are ignorant about how those open spaces are funded,...

One-woman show rolls into town bringing laughs

The people you love most sometimes marry people you hate. Coping with this all-to-common fact forms the crux of “How to Survive Your Adult Relationship with Your Family,” a one-woman show by Polly Frost, a professional humorist from New...

Sedona memorializes 9/11 a decade after terrorist attacks

A decade ago, two and half hours was enough time to change the world. The quiet Tuesday morning of Sept. 11 began as unremarkable and unassuming as any other in 2001. American children went to school while their parents...

Area recycling bins go up in flames

Four recycling bins and a trash bin in the Cottonwood area have been torched since July, costing local recyclers several hundred dollars to repair. Three bins belonged to nonprofit Sedona Recycles while the fourth was owned by Rimrock-based for-profit...

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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