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Sedona Fire District crews put out brush fire near home in the Village of Oak Creek

Sedona Fire District crews responded to an interface fire near 95 Courthouse Butte Road in the Village of Oak Creek on Wednesday, May 29. The fire originated in the yard of a residential property before extending into the nearby vegetative...

Letter of advice to Sedona’s seniors as they graduate

To the graduating Class of 2024, I offer this advice. Wear sunscreen. It’s good advice I once heard in a Baz Luhrmann song. Don’t take yourself so seriously. You are your own worst critics and only you have to live with...

Sedona police ask for help locating armed robbery suspect

At 10:30 a.m., Friday, May 24, a suspect — identified by Sedona police as a Hispanic male, 5’8” to 5’10” tall, weighing 180 to 210 pounds, with black hair covered by a beanie-style hat, medium to fair skin tone...

‘Bean counters’ must tell Yavapai College ‘no’ to 3.5% tax hike

Update: Yavapai College Board approves tax hike Yavapai Community College District Governing Board voted 3-2 on Tuesday, May 21, to raise the Yavapai community college tax rate 3.5%, with Board Chairwoman and District 2 Representative Deb McCasland, of Prescott; District...

Celebrate mothers here and gone for the gift of your life

Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 12, the day when we celebrate our mothers, grandmothers, wives and daughters with brunches or breakfasts, flowers or just a phone call for those of us who live too far away to travel. The...

AI failed Turing test, but is a sign of what’s to come

This week I received perhaps the oddest letter to the editor in my two decades at the Sedona Red Rock News: A letter generated by artificial intelligence, or AI. It began innocuously enough with a short introduction by the author...

Former Sedona City Councilman, current candidate, veteran and volunteer Mike Ward has died

Mike Ward, who served on Sedona City Council from 2010 to 2014, and was currently running for election to one of three open council seats, died Friday, May 3. Ward was a member of Friends of the Forest, serving...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney headline McCain Institute’s Sedona Forum May 3 and 4

The McCain Institute is hosting the 2024 Sedona Forum taking Friday and Saturday, May 3 and 4, at Enchantment Resort outside Sedona, starting at 2:30 p.m. The organization was initiated by the late U.S. Sen. John McCain . With the...

No easy solution from U.S. Supreme Court case on homelessness: City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson

Since the 2018 ruling Martin v. Boise, the law regarding homelessness and city ordinances prohibiting camping on public lands has been unsettled. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Boise that governments cannot criminalize normal human activi­ties, which includes...

Check out Lifestyles of Sedona in today’s newspaper

In today’s edition of Sedona Red Rock News, you, our dear readers, can find a copy of our biannual Lifestyles of Sedona magazine. This publication, which we have been producing for more than 20 years, is one of the highlights...

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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