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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...

El Salvador’s ambassador speaks in Sedona

When Francisco Altschul went off to the University of El Salvador to become an architect, he never expected to one day be his country’s ambassador. Nor did he expect his country would be dragged into a decade of civil...

Norman Brill Herkenham

Norman Brill Herkenham Jan. 1, 1918 — Oct. 5, 2010 Norman Brill Herkenham, 92, died Oct. 5. He lived in Sedona for 36 years. He is father of the 26-mile trail that encircles Sedona. Survived by wife Marjorie Herkenham...

VVMC completes buyout of rival Cardiac Care

Cardiovascular patients in Verde Valley now have a single destination for care. Verde Valley Medical Center finalized its buyout of Cardiac Care in Cottonwood on Oct. 1. VVMC will integrate Cardiac Care’s heart patients into its Heart & Vascular...

Severe storm shakes Sedona

While Sedona was hit by 0.88 inches of rain Wednesday, Oct. 6, four tornadoes touched down around Northern Arizona. Several others reportedly formed, but did not make contact. Sedona received more than 2.4 inches of rain, including 1.12 inches...

Tornado warning in effect for Sedona and Verde Valley

The National Weather Service in Flagstaff has issued a tornado warning for south central Coconino County, east and west central Yavapai County, including the city of Sedona. The warning is in effect until at least 5 p.m. At 12:11...

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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