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Christopher Fox Graham

Monsoon rains diminish strength of 1,049-acre Grapevine Fire on Mingus Mountain

The Grapevine Fire is burning on Mingus Mountain, in the Verde Ranger District approximately 10 miles east of Prescott Valley and two miles south of Mingus Spring Ranch Lightning started the fire on July 21, which has now grown to...

Commend Sedona City Council for its ordinance on new ordinances

We would like to commend Sedona City Councilman Pete Furman and Councilwoman Kathy Kinsella for getting their ordinance on ordinances passed de facto unanimously at the July 11 meeting and thereby requiring new city laws to be read twice. Unfortunately...

There’s light at the end of the short-term rental hallway

When it comes to vacation rentals, the spring and summer of 2023 have been far different than the pandemic years of 2020, 2021 and 2022, when Sedona witnessed a swell of visitors who were escaping Phoenix, Tucson and California...

Sedona hiker dies after fall from Bell Rock; memorial planned for July 29

On the afternoon of Thursday, July 6, a Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office patrol conducted a welfare check for a man who had not shown up to work at an Uptown computer store, which was unusual. The man’s roommate said the...

Cottonwood police and DPS pursuit sexual assault suspect across Verde Valley, ending with arrest on I-17

Over the past week, the Cottonwood Police Department has been investigating a crime involving a suspect who, over four or five years, had allegedly sexually victimized a younger family member. Cottonwood police did not release the name of the suspect. On...

Stay cool as summer heat tops 100 degrees

Most of the Southwest is now under an excessive heat warning, with days last weekend reaching 100 degrees or higher. In Cottonwood, temperatures average about 5 degrees hotter than Sedona, while downriver in Camp Verde, which is lower in elevation...

Sedona’s 3 state legislators warn city that mayor’s proposed OHV ban is not legal

The three Arizona state legislators who represent Sedona, Sen. Ken Bennett, Rep. Selina Bliss and Rep. Quang H. Nguyen, sent a letter to Sedona Mayor Scott Jablow and the Sedona City Council on June 5 warning the city about...

More questions than answers about Big Park Community School’s possible sale to Yavapai County

The Sedona-Oak Creek School District is delaying its discussions about whether to accept a letter of intent to sell Big Park Community School in the Village of Oak Creek to Yavapai County until July, a proposal that has seemingly...

Vote to fund Sedona Chamber of Commerce’s Uptown Visitor Center shows goodwill

Last week the Sedona City Council took the first steps toward repairing its relationship with Sedona’s business community and our workers by agreeing to fund the Uptown Visitor Center at 80% of its costs and expenses. Admittedly, the request was...

Applaud Sedona City Council for funding six local nonprofits

We commend the Sedona City Council for voting unanimously to grant service contracts to six Sedona-area nonprofits. Sedona City Manager Karen Osburn recommended that council fund the full amount requested by five of the organizations, including: Humane Society of Sedona:...

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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