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33-year-old VOC woman arrested after allegedly stabbing parents early Saturday morning

Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to the report of a stabbing in the area of Coffee Pot Rock Road in the Village of Oak Creek, south of Sedona at 5:30 a.m. Saturday, June 22. A YCSO patrol sergeant was...

We commend City Council’s proposal for creek crossings

At the Sedona City Council meeting on Tuesday, June 11, council members discussed and agreed to support any number of crossings over Oak Creek both inside and outside Sedona city limits. We commend council for reigniting the discussion on providing...

How wildland firefighters battle fires in the West

The first big wildfire of the 2024 season to affect Sedona and the Verde Valley is the 960-acre Bravo Fire. Burning on the heavily-wooded Camp Navajo, an Arizona National Guard facility south of Bellemont, an unincorporated community 22 miles...

An inside look on how journalists find & report the news

A member of the Cottonwood City Council recently voiced some confusion about how we journalists report on local news. I reached out to answer his questions about how we source, investigate and report on the news. That said, this...

K.B. Bren debuts third album, ‘Color Me Gone’ on June 11

Local singer and songwriter K.B. Bren is proud to announce the release of his third CD "Color Me Gone." The 13 songs on the album were recorded and mastered at Studio S in Sedona with the help of...

Have the courage to send your views, not a form letter

Within hours of former President Donald Trump being convicted by a New York jury on 34 felony counts on Thursday, May 30, we received our first letter to the editor reacting to it, though the only one thus far. We...

Low viewership of City Council and other city meetings raises questions, especially why meetings last for hours

As the voice of Sedona and the Verde Valley, and Sedona’s newspaper of record for the last 60 years, we’re no stranger to filing public records requests with local, county and state governments, as well as federal agencies whose...

Bravo Fire burning north of Sedona, near Camp Navajo

The U.S. Forest Service and other agencies are responding to the Bravo Fire, now 1,400 acres s of 8:20 p.m. Friday, June 7, burning a half-mile south of Camp Navajo, west of Flagstaff and 21 miles north of Sedona,...

Warning: Scam from fraudulent number claims to Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office collecting court fees

The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office has been receiving phone calls and emails recently from residents of Yavapai County stating that they were contacted by someone identifying themselves as an employee of YCSO, according to actual YCSO Public Affairs and...

Oak Creek Canyon road closures now in effect until June 7

Drivers who would normally use State Route 89A at the switchbacks in Oak Creek Canyon north of Sedona will need to detour during daytime hours the week of June 3. An Arizona Department of Transportation rockfall mitigation safety project will...

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 and First Amendment law and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. Retired U.S. Army Col. John Mills, former director of Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy, and International Affairs referred to him as "Mr. Slam Poet."
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