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Christopher Fox Graham

City of $EDONA should pay local renters, not a ransom to short-term rental investors

The city of Sedona is launching a program where the city will pay short-term rental property owners from a fund of up to $240,000 to “convert” short-term rentals to long-term rentals for residents, and giving those owners incentives to...

State Route 89A closes for two weeks

The Arizona Department of Transportation is advising drivers and area residents and businesses to plan for overnight full closures of State Route 89A in Oak Creek Canyon weekdays from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. Mondays through Fridays on Aug....

Florence Spyrow out as CEO of Northern Arizona Healthcare

Northern Arizona Healthcare announced today, Friday, Aug. 12, a change in NAH leadership, according to a press release. Florence "Flo" Spyrow has "stepped down as the system president and chief executive officer." Following this decision, Josh Tinkle, NAH Chief...

Candidates eager for Sedona Red Rock News to host mayoral debate

We are very happy to announce that Larson Newspapers will be hosting a right proper debate between Sedona’s two mayoral candidates, Samaire Armstrong and Scott Jablow, the two candidates who emerged from the August primary having defeated the incumbent...

Witnesses dispute mayoral candidate Kurt Gehlbach’s Sedona police call alleging sign theft

Kurt Gehlbach, a candidate for Sedona mayor, called the Sedona Police Department’s non-emergency number on July 21, at 9:56 p.m., alleging that political signs belonging to him were taken at an unknown time from Windsong Trailer Park on State...

Sedona can look to future with primary over

With the 2022 general or primary election behind us, we can now look towards the future. The race for Sedona’s mayor is heading to a runoff between the top two vote-getters: Vice Mayor Scott Jablow and newcomer Samaire Armstrong, both...

2022 unofficial Election Day results are in

Primary Election results from Yavapai County, Coconino County and the state of Arizona, as of 9:20 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 6. These numbers are being updated as the counties and state update them. Yavapai CountyPrecincts Reporting: 100%Registered Voters: 161,391Ballots Cast:...

Sedona police respond to sign thefts and vandalism, and arrest suspect

As the primary election nears, there have been several incidents regarding the theft or damage of local campaign signs in Sedona. Arizona Revised Statute §16-1019 makes it “a class 2 misde­meanor for any person to know­ingly remove, alter, deface or...

Election results will be posted after polls close at 7 p.m. Aug. 2

Tuesday, Aug. 2, is the primary election. Due to the particularities of our newspaper production schedule, we will be going to press before the close of election night when polls close, but our newspa­pers will be delivered to readers...

Sedona’s Climate Action Plan is garbage to be recycled

It’s good to know in the face of climate change, the city of Sedona is already recycling garbage, and by that I mean Sedona Climate Action Plan. On the anniversary of its first year, we can look at this document,...

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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