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Astronaut Nicole Stott talks spaceflight at Lowell Observatory event celebrating Pluto

Retired NASA astronaut Nicole Stott was the keynote speaker at the 2023 I Heart Pluto Festival, which celebrates the discovery of Pluto by Lowell Observatory astronomer Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. Stott spoke Feb. 18 at the Orpheum Theater in...

Sedonans have the resources to aid our homeless residents

Sedona has been hit by a spate of snowstorms during both January and February, which have dumped several inches of moisture on our red rocks and more above the Mogollon Rim. The Sedona area has received between 5 and...

Donation helps Sedona police access gated communities in emergencies

Sedona police officers who are dispatched to emergency calls, burglary alarms, reports of violent acts in progress and for welfare checks on seniors or homebound residents often need to enter some of Sedona’s dozen gated communities. The SPD received a...

Welcome back to our Sedona International Film Festival guests

The Sedona International Film Festival is back in full force and Sedona is again filled with tourists from Arizona and farther afield who are both filmmakers and film lovers. Visitors from all across the United States and elsewhere in...

Lowell Observatory keeps expanding our understanding

On the grand scale of the universe, Northern Arizona is relatively small and insignificant. Yet out on the far edge of our solar system, an orb two-thirds the size of our moon remained unknown to us until astronomer Clyde Tombaugh...

Sedona and Verde Valley needs a fighter on Yavapai College Board like Paul Chevalier

After nearly a decade of serving the voters of Yavapai College’s District 3, Paul Chevalier announced last week that he was stepping down from the governing board, in no small part because it was his 84th birthday, thereby clearing...

Valentine’s Day is less fun than Lupercalia was

Tuesday, Feb. 14, is St. Valentine’s Day, which is either a quasi-religious secular holiday dedicated to the expression of love or a nefarious commercial fabrication created by chocolate companies to sell heart-shaped boxes of confectionery. Whatever the name, the event...

Leaders ignore data and the numbers at their own peril

The disconnect between some four members of the Sedona City Council and the city’s workers and businesses is often startling and disappointing. We’re glad Mayor Scott Jablow, Councilwoman Jessica Williamson and Councilman Pete Furman understood that Sedona’s business community needs...

Arizona State Legislators are inviting public records lawsuit over new rule

According to new rules passed by the Arizona State Legislature, the emails in the inbox of a House or Senate member’s legislative email account, the one that ends with “@azleg.gov,” will now be destroyed 90 days after they are...

Sedona Red Rock News’ ‘City Talk’ column provides readers with public transparency

Government — local, national and at all levels in between — must be wildly transparent. All residents should be able to see what city staffers do all day, who they serve, what work they do, what projects they brain­storm,...

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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