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Scholarship night gives $212,300 to 32 SRRHS students

For some, high school graduation is the end. For others, it’s just the next step to a university degree. However, college would be prohibitively expensive for many if it wasn’t for the philanthropy of scholarships. On Tuesday, May 10,...

Coconino National Forest implements fire restrictions

Officials with the Coconino National Forest will implement fire restrictions on Friday, May 6. Due to increasing fire danger, these restrictions are deemed necessary to prevent human-caused wildfires and protect public health and safety. The restrictions prohibit fires, campfires,...

Searchers find missing man’s body

The body of 29-year-old Derek Hamblen was found early Wednesday afternoon, April 20, apparently by some friends, in a remote area off of Upper Red Rock Loop Road, according to Dwight D’Evelyn, public information officer for the Yavapai County...

Commercial properties sit vacant

While driving through town, a motorist might note dozens of vacant commercial rental properties from Uptown through West Sedona. Some are located in prime locations right along State Route 89A, Sedona’s main thoroughfare, such as a former bank building...

Driver’s license says Sedona is wandering inventor’s home

Inventor Ronald Logsdon is back in Sedona, although he never really left. Logsdon, 55, lived in Sedona in the 1980s. While here, he invented a device for Light & Sound goggles, a clinical hypnosis tool designed for accelerated learning....

Cattle truck overturns on southbound I-17

The right lane of southbound Interstate 17 south of Sunset Point will be closed most of the day as crews work to clear a cattle truck that crashed around 3:10 a.m. Friday, April 1. The stretch of I-17 between...

Robert Brookshire

Robert Brookshire June 27, 1936 —  March 22, 2011 Robert “Bob” Brookshire, of Sedona, died March 22. He is survived by his wife of 30-plus years, Linda Nicholas; daughters Erin (Stephen) Daly and Vija (Julieann) Brookshire; a sister Shirley...

2011 Sedona marathon is the last

Race organizer says event too costly to continue in future Arizona’s weak economy has led to apparent death of one of Sedona’s newest signature events, the Sedona Marathon. Director of the Sedona Marathon Karen Livesay made the announcement Wednesday,...

Japanese nuclear radiation poses no threat to Arizona

Arizonans should not take potassium iodide as a precautionary measure The devastating 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that last week triggered a radiological situation at one of Japan’s nuclear power plants does not pose a public health threat in Arizona....

Former Sedona resident and 1950’s bombshell Jane Russell dies

Former Sedona resident Jane Russell, 89, an actress and sex symbol in the 1940s and 1950s, died Monday, Feb. 28, reportedly from respiratory failure in Santa Maria, Calif. Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell was born June 21, 1921, in Bemidji,...

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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