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Christopher Fox Graham

Remembering legendary sculptor John Soderberg

The Verde Valley’s iconic sculptor John Mark Soderberg died May 13. Family and friends gathered to remember the artist, the father and the man at a celebration of life held at the Sedona Creative Life Center on June 3. During...

Stay healthy while wildfire smoke fills the sky

While the three lightning-caused wildfires burning in northern Arizona are outside the Verde Valley, the valley has also been affected by wildfire smoke from both the north and south during the last week. The Coconino National Forest is currently...

Northern Arizona Healthcare’s new CEO Cheney to begin on June 12 as Tinkle placed on leave

Northern Arizona Healthcare’s Board of Directors announced June 5 that incoming CEO David Cheney advanced his start date and will begin as CEO Monday, June 12. Cheney was scheduled to begin on Monday, July 10. Chief Operating Officer Josh Tinkle...

How to recall an elected official in Arizona

A reader recently called lamenting that civics education is no longer properly taught in schools as it was when she was a student some six decades ago. In many states, civics as a class was replaced in the 1960s and...

Autocracy and scornful insults by Sedona’s mayor isn’t leadership

If the health of a community is reflected in those who lead it, the Sedona City Council meeting on Tuesday, May 23, told residents and the public at large that Sedona is a combative, toxic, disrespectful community with utter...

30-acre Miller Fire in Sedona area canyon now at 31% containment with minimal activity

On the morning of Memorial Day, Monday, May 29, the Sedona-area Miller Fire is 31% contained at 30 acres and is experiencing minimal activity. The Miller Fire was last reported at 35 acres but has been adjusted due to more...

SAVCO, Sedona Elks host Memorial Day events

The Sedona Area Veteran and Community Outreach organization, with the support of the city of Sedona, will conduct Sedona’s Memorial Day Ceremony at the Sedona Military Park located at the Jack Jameson Memorial Sculpture Park on Monday, May 29,...

Sunscreen and other advice for the Class of 2023

To the graduating Class of 2023, I offer this advice. Take what you need from it: Wear sunscreen. It’s good advice I once heard in a Baz Luhrmann song. “Youth is wasted on the young” 1 is a phrase you...

Sedona-Oak Creek School District Governing Board wants input on hiring new superintendent

Yavapai County is facing an exodus of educational heads with the departure of at least 10 superintendents across the county, including three here in the Verde Valley. Clarkdale-Jerome School District Superintendent Danny Brown is retiring after six years in the...

U.S. Forest Service crews monitoring quarter-acre Sedona-area Miller Fire

U.S. Forest Service crews are monitoring a quarter-acre fire located in the Secret Mountain Wilderness of the Coconino National Forest’s Red Rock Ranger District. The Miller Fire, which was confirmed at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, May 22, is smoldering at...

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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