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Craig Dible fills fire board seat

Sedona resident Craig Dible will fill the vacant fifth seat on the Sedona Fire District Governing Board following a Tuesday, Jan. 11, work session. Nine applicants expressed their desire to be on the board. Board members Ty Montgomery and...

I-17, I-40 reopen, Oak Creek Canyon still closed

After being closed Wednesday, Dec. 29, by the Arizona Department of Transportation, Interstate 17 is now open northbound and southbound. ADOT closed State Route 89A between mileposts 386, Pumphouse Wash, and 397, the Forest Highlands area, at 2...

Sedona’s Black Friday forecast: Busy but tame

In some places around the country, Black Friday means major discount sales and an almost insane rush to grab them. Black Friday, the Friday after Thanksgiving, has become the traditional first day of Christmas shopping. Retailers often offer major...

City leaders give thanks

Thanksgiving is more than a celebration of friends and family. It’s an opportunity to welcome friends, family and sometimes strangers to share food, time and thankfulness. While the first English pilgrims offered thanks for surviving their first year in...

Juilliard doctoral student emphasizes need for music

While music programs are being eliminated nationwide due to budget cuts, and focus on No Child Left Behind Act basics, music is vital for both students and communities, according to Evan Fein, a Juilliard doctoral student currently in Sedona....

National Scenic Area bill may still be alive

Despite the recent electoral loss of the Sedona Red Rock National Scenic Area’s congressional sponsor, the legislation is not dead. After several years of negotiations regarding a potential NSA for 160,000 acres around Sedona, U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick ...

20th annual Red Rock Fantasy is a go

Red Rock Fantasy will return for its 20th anniversary. With the recent buyout of bankrupt ILX Resorts by Diamond Resorts International, some Sedona residents and visitors may have wondered about whether the huge annual holiday display would light up...

Russians return ‘The Call of the Canyon’ lost film

Video courtesy of the U.S. Library of Congress and Gosfilmofond. The Russians just saved a little piece of Sedona’s Western film history. For decades, “The Call of the Canyon,” the 1923 silent film that kicked off Sedona as a set location...

SUV rolls over on Vultee Arch Road

A Honda Ridgeline sport utility vehicle rolled over on Forest Road 152, aka Vultee Arch Road, around 3 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 30. No one was seriously injured in the rollover accident. According to the passengers, which...

Sedona closes fiscal year with a $750K surplus

When the city of Sedona closed its books on the 2009-2010 fiscal year it ended up with a surplus of a little more than $750,000 in the general fund. The city generated a little more than $11.2 million in...

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 and First Amendment law and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. Retired U.S. Army Col. John Mills, former director of Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy, and International Affairs referred to him as "Mr. Slam Poet."
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