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Ralph Milliken

Ralph Milliken 1941 — December 20, 2021 Ralph Milliken, 80, died Dec. 20. Born in Glendale, Calif., he retired from the motion picture industry where he worked on many award-winning films and television series. He is survived by his wife Dorothy; son Ralph...

Monty Craig Bondurant

Monty Craig Bondurant 1951 — Dec. 22, 2021 Monty Bondurant, 70, of Clarkdale, died Dec. 22. He held a bachelor’s in psychology from Arizona State University, and a masters in counseling psychology from Texas Tech. In 2000, he moved to the Verde Valley...

Anne Walker DiBattista

Anne Walker DiBattista 1961 - December 26, 2021 Anne Walker DiBattista, a 24-year resident of Sedona, died Dec. 26, 2021. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1961. She was an enthusiastic champion of the Sedona Main Street Program, actively participating...

Evolution of Christmas ends with family and love

Saturday, Dec. 25, is Christmas, the celebration of the birth of Yehoshua, a poor Jewish carpenter’s son, in the backwater Hebrew village of Bet Lehem, south of Jerusalem just over 2,025 years ago. The early Christian church placed the date...

Sedona City Council can’t pass buck to voters on Sedona Community Plan

Every decade cities, towns and counties in Arizona are required to draft, publish and adopt — and in some cases ratify with a public vote — a community plan that state loose but legally binding guidelines for growth, development...

Joanna Dean

Joanna Dean October 14, 2021 Joanna Dean, 76, formerly of Sedona, died Oct. 14 in San Juan Cosala, Jalisco, Mexico. She loved gardening and cooking and ran her own catering operation while in Sedona. She was preceded in death by two sisters and...

Jury convicts former Sedona chiropractor for sex crimes

A former Sedona chiro­practor, Douglas Gilbert, 64, was convicted by a jury Dec. 8, for sexual conduct with a minor and involving a minor in a drug offense in 2016. His wife, Kimberly A. Korba, 45, previ­ously pleaded guilty to...

Peggy MacMillan

Peggy MacMillan May 8, 1034 — Nov. 10, 2021 Peggy MacMillan, 87, of Sedona, died Nov. 10. Born in Fargo, N.D., she was a Sedona resident for 35 years and a member of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church. She was preceded in death by...

Yavapai College board member Kuknyo fails to grasp taxes are public’s money

At a meeting of the Yavapai College Governing Board on Nov. 16, the board went on the attack against District 3 Representative Paul Chevalier, who represents the interests of Sedona, Clarkdale, Cottonwood and parts of Cornville. The Prescott-majority community college...

Lionn Dean Kirk, Ph.D.

Lionn Dean Kirk, Ph.D. Nov. 27, 2021 L. Dean Kirk, 91, died Nov. 27. He was a minister, school psychologist, and marriage and family therapist. After moving to the Verde Valley, he was active in several area churches as a minister and...

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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