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Tyler Underwood

Tyler Underwood Aug. 20, 1996 — Jan. 16, 2022 Tyler Underwood, 25, died Jan. 16. He was a 2014 graduate of Sedona Red Rock High School. Services were held Village of Oak Creek Church of the Nazarene on Jan. 22.

Two sign leases to rent at Big Park Community School

At a meeting Dec. 7, the SOCSD Governing Board agreed to offer three leases to three tenants for space at Big Park Community School in the Village of Oak Creek. All three leases were offered at the same rate per...

June Kaiser

June Kaiser 1924 — Dec. 8, 2021 June Marie Northrop Kaiser, 97, died Dec. 8. She received her pilot license at age 19 and was a lifelong member of The 99’s women’s pilot organization. She worked in high school libraries in the...

Nancy Ann Simley

Nancy Ann Simley Jan. 19, 1933 — Jan. 5, 2022 Nancy Ann Simley, 88, died Jan. 5. She grew up in San Diego, attending Herbert Hoover High School. She met her future husband, James Auld Simley, at the University of Arizona in...

Donald Edward McGrath

Donald Edward McGrath June 2, 1934 — Dec. 4, 2021 Donald Edward McGrath, 67, of Sedona, died Dec, 4. Born in Tewksbury, Mass., he joined the U.S. Air Force and served for four years in the Weather Service Division....

Wendy Lee Lienhart

Wendy Lee Lienhart May 16, 1960 — Dec. 19, 2021 Wendy Lee Lienhart, 61, of Cottonwood, died Dec. 19. She worked in bartending/serving, cashiering, caretaking and managing establishments. With her love for animals, she loved her cats, birds, dogs, snakes and...

Expect closures on SR 179 for sewer replacement project 10 pm-7 am

As part of the State Route 179 Sewer Main Replacement Project: Phase 2, the city of Sedona and its contractor, Standard Construction Company, will begin night work on Thursday, Jan. 20, to perform work that cannot be performed during...

Joy McCollum Salzmann

Joy McCollum Salzmann March 6, 1925 — December 21, 2021 Joy McCollum Salzmann, 96, of Sedona, died Dec. 21. She and her husband first moved to Sedona in 1956 to teach at Verde Valley School. After 10 years, they moved to the...

Wylene ‘Chris’ Corbett

Wylene ‘Chris’ Corbett Aug. 17, 1934 — July 20, 2021 Wylene “Chris” Corbett, 86, of Sedona, died July 20. She was preceded in death by her husband, James Corbett, M.D. She is survived by her daughter Susan and Les Miller of Portland,...

Mass COVID-19 outbreak at Coconino County Detention Facility in Flagstaff

The Coconino County Detention Facility is currently experiencing its first COVID-19 positive mass outbreak since health-related protocols to mitigate a mass spreading of the virus were established in March 2020. As of the of morning Thursday, Jan. 13, CCDF has...

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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