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Christopher Fox Graham

‘Welcome to Sedona,’ unless you’re poor

We see warnings that tourism and its related tax revenue are down across the Verde Valley and are expected to decline further through the end of this year, throughout 2023 and likely into 2024. This drop is karmic punishment —...

2 men killed, 1 wounded and charged with murder after shooting at Rimrock party

Just before 11 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 15, Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch received multiple calls with reports of a shooting on the 4000 block of Top O the Morning in Rimrock. Once YCSO deputies arrived on scene, they found...

Sedona police on lookout for suspects and information after possible luring incidents

The Sedona Police Department would like to make the community aware of three incidents over the last week involving suspicious activity of adult males approaching minors. The Police Department is investigating each incident thoroughly and is unsure at this...

Sedona mayoral candidates face big questions in Oct. 6 debate

We hope that you read our front-page story about the upcoming debate on Thursday, Oct. 6, and plan to watch the debate in person at the Mary D. Fisher and Alice Gill-Sheldon theaters or stream it online on our...

Join us for the Oct. 6 Sedona mayoral debate

We are now only a day away from hosting Larson Newspapers’ first-ever Sedona mayoral debate. Over the course of 60 minutes we will ask pointed questions of Vice Mayor Scott Jablow and newcomer Samaire Armstrong, who are campaigning to be...

Lesley Yen to helm Coconino National Forest for next four months

Coconino National Forest welcomes the arrival of Lesley Yen, who will be serving as the acting forest supervisor for the next four months. Yen previously served as the Coconino National Forest deputy forest super­visor from January 2019 to October 2020. Yen...

Meet Sedona mayoral candidates in ‘After Press,’ our new podcast

Sedona voters have had numerous opportunities to get to know City Council candidates via public forums, speaking engagements and gatherings. Yet at such events, both candidates for City Council and the mayor’s seat had their political game faces on, speaking...

Silencing others’ speech is an illiberal attack on republic

Civil discourse in the United States has been hyper-polarized for years. One could claim the split from partisan positions into silos that refuse to speak to each other happened due to the divisive presidency of Donald Trump, others by...

DPS IDs 4 victims in fatal I-17 crash as 2 brothers from Tempe and their parents visiting from India

The Arizona Department of Public Safety has identified the four people who died in a crash Sunday, Sept. 18, at the Interstate 17 intersection at State Route 179 exit near milepost 298, southeast of the Village of Oak Creek. Brother...

Sedona Fire District’s non-emergency phones down until Sept. 24

Sedona Fire District's phone system has limited capabilities and is operating on backup servers, according to a press release sent out at 12:54 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22 The emergency response capabilities of SFD, including 911 are not affected by this...

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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