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Christopher Fox Graham

City’s SR 179 project backs up sewage into Center for the New Age

While reconnecting and testing the new sewer main in State Route 179, according to city of Sedona Director of Wastewater Roxanne Holland, the new pipe was filled with sewage on Friday, March 4, which "unexpectedly flowed into the service...

Perennial lies already making rounds in this election year

With the 2022 election nearing, a collection of peren­nial gadflies are making the same tired arguments and spreading the same misinformation they do every election cycle. Before voters get hornswoggled by these untruths, misstatements, intentional errors and flat-out lies, let’s...

Jerome police arrest suspect who assaulted USFS officer on Forest Road 525D

A suspect, 33-year-old Jonathan Kip Medford, who allegedly assaulted a U.S. Forest Service law enforcement officer Tuesday, Feb. 15, in the Forest Road 525 area was arrested in Jerome the afternoon of Wednesday, Feb. 16. On Tuesday morning, the...

Manhunt underway for man who assaulted USFS agent on FR 525D near Palatki

A U.S. Forest Service agent was violently assaulted Tuesday, Feb. 15, at approximately 10:30 a.m. near the Palatki Heritage Site off Forest Service Road 525D. Jonathan Kip Medford, 33, of Sedona, has been named a person of interest in this...

Cupid’s arrow flies wild path through time

Monday, 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 confectioneries. Whatever the name, the event...

Police asking for help finding officer shooter

The Yavapai-Apache Police Department is asking the public’s help in locating a person of interest in the shooting of our officer last evening. Officer Preston Brogdon was shot near the Tunlii housing area on the reservation at 7:30 pm, and...

Gov. Doug Ducey will reform short-term rentals if bills reach him

The arguments we most often hear, especially on social media, for why regulations on short-term rentals might not get passed in Arizona is that Republicans in the Arizona State Legislature are opposed to any sort of rules regarding short-term...

YAN Tribal Officer shot near Camp Verde

The FBI has taken over an investigation of a tribal police officer near Camp Verde. They have issued the following statement bout the incident. "The FBI and Yavapai County Sheriff's Office are conducting a joint investigation into the shooting of...

We investigate leads but we need ‘leads’ to start

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been contacted by a few sources regarding several potential stories alleging illegal, improper and/or questionable activities regarding property owners, business owners or local officials with one leaving an unintentionally cryptic voicemail with very...

Our guidelines for political letters in election season

This year is an election year. With every election comes the desire to voice views on political issues. As Sedona’s only newspaper and the largest news outlet in the Verde Valley, we’ve had long standing policies about how to...

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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