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Sedona 4th most popular city among same-sex couples

Sedona is among Arizona’s top four communities where same-sex couples prefer to live. Those are the findings recently published by the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law’s Williams Institute. Gary Gates, Ph.D., a demographer with the institute,...

Forest Service’s Red Rock Pass proposal drastically reduces fee area

The Red Rock Pass may no longer be needed in 85 percent of the area around Sedona. The Bureau of Land Management’s Recreation Resource Advisory Council was set to decide on the issue Wednesday, Aug. 24, based on the...

Founding director of Zaki Gordon leaves film school

The Zaki Gordon Institute of Independent Filmmaking is losing two of its most prominent staffers. Founding Director Stephan Schultze and his wife, Lori Schultze, the school’s former public relations and marketing manager, are moving to Lynchburg, Va. Liberty University...

Sedona man wants Cottonwood police to return marijuana

Mike Smith wants his marijuana back. When that will happen is the question, following the March arrest and June dismissal of a case against the Sedona man. He is legally allowed to possess medical cannabis under Proposition 203, which...

YCSO asks for help finding missing man

On July 5, 2011, Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a reported missing person call in the 11700 of Dusty Trail, Coyote Springs, near Prescott Valley. Thursday, July 14, YCSO deputies received a tip indicating 48-year-old...

Sedona’s art scene needs our help to stay vibrant, alive

It isn’t easy to be an artist in Sedona right now. It’s never really been a cakewalk — artists spend more time waiting tables or serving coffee than recording great albums or painting masterpieces — but the art scene...

YCSO searches VOC for peeping tom stalking teen

A peeping tom is reportedly stalking a teenage girl in the Village of Oak Creek. The unknown suspect appeared at the girl’s bedroom window at 9 p.m., Monday, June 13, while she was with two friends at home in...

James Golding Garrett Jr.

James Golding Garrett Jr. May 19, 1931 —  June 3, 2011 James Golding Garrett Jr., 80, of Sedona, died June 3. Garrett was born May 19, 1931. He was a letter carrier in Michigan for 30 years and retired...

Campfire restrictions begin Satuday for Coconino National Forest

The Coconino National Forest will implement fire restrictions, beginning 8 a.m. Satuday, June 4, due to increasing fire danger. The restrictions prohibit fires, campfires, charcoal, coal and wood stoves outside of developed campgrounds and limit smoking to within enclosed...

Fire restrictions to be lifted on national forests

Campfire and smoking restrictions will be lifted on the Coconino, Kaibab, Prescott and Apache-Sitgreaves national forests beginning Friday at 8 a.m. Recent rains along with higher humidity and increased fuel moistures have lowered fire danger on 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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