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Christopher Fox Graham

Pathetic 44.32% voter turnout denies Sedona City Council any mandate

Now that the final July 30 election results have been posted by Coconino and Yavapai Counties, Sedona resi­dents should be utterly disappointed by the final numbers in the race for Sedona mayor and Sedona City Council. In no way...

8 allegations made against Sedona Police Chief Stephanie Foley ‘unsubstantiated’ after outside investigation

As reported in March, Sedona Police Deputy Chief Ryan Kwitkin, Sgt. Laura Leon and Executive Assistant to the Chief of Police Charlene “Sherri” O’Connor previously met with Human Resources Director Russ Martin to report the existence of what they...

Plan for Oak Creek Canyon road closure at switchbacks Aug. 19 to 23

Full daytime closures Monday to Friday, Aug. 19 to 23; with 24/7 single-lane restriction through late August. The Arizona Department of Transportation is advising drivers and area residents and businesses to plan for upcoming daytime full closures and continued lane...

Sedona Police Deputy Chief Ryan Kwitkin fired after internal investigation

The city of Sedona launched an investigation into Sedona Police Chief Stephanie Foley following allegations of creating a hostile workplace made by Deputy Chief Ryan Kwitkin, Sgt. Laura Leon and Executive Assistant to the Chief of Police Charlene “Sherri”...

Sedona Police Deputy Chief Ryan Kwitkin fired after internal investigation

The city of Sedona launched an investigation into Sedona Police Chief Stephanie Foley following allegations of creating a hostile workplace made by Deputy Chief Ryan Kwitkin, Sgt. Laura Leon and Executive Assistant to the Chief of Police Charlene “Sherri”...

Sedona City Council ignores the law & we residents pay the price with lawsuits

Let’s talk about the legal problems affecting the city of Sedona. “Which one now?” you may be asking — and that’s the problem. The current Sedona City Council has a bad habit of ignoring the law, overreaching its bailiwick, going...

2024 Primary Election Results

Early results are in for the Tuesday, July 30, 2024 Primary Election. In order to avoid a runoff during the general election in November, candidates need to win at least 50% plus one vote of the total number of votes...

Visit our website to see primary election results on Tuesday, July 30

Tuesday, July 30, is the primary election. Due to the peculiarities of our newspaper production schedule, we will be going to press on the Wednesday, July 31, edition before the polls close, but our newspapers won’t be delivered to...

Breaking News: Olson Real Estate Group files lawsuit against city of Sedona, council members and seven other defendants

Olson Real Estate Group Inc. and 115 Schnebly LLC filed suit in Yavapai County Superior Court on Thursday, July 25, against 15 defendants, including the city of Sedona. Sedona Mayor Scott Jablow, Vice Mayor Holli Ploog, Councilwoman Melissa Dunn, Councilman...

Rhetoric flies as campaign season nears the primary

As you can tell from our pages over the last few weeks, we are at the height of election season as candidates from the White House down to city hall make their pitches to voters. In total, our newspaper 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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