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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...

USFS battling two 4-acre wildfires in Sedona area

Coconino National Forest fire managers are working to suppress two lightning-caused wildfires, the Knob Fire and the Clay Fire, both of which were about 4 acres in size and first reported Monday, July 15, following a weekend storm. One engine,...

Enduring heat and slowdown in ‘dog days’ of summer

These are the dog days of summer. We are now in the hot stretch of the summer between the last bit of cooler weather in late spring and the onset of the monsoon in late July, although rainfall expectations...

Sedona City Council candidate Q&A: Katherine Todd

Age: 53 Time in Sedona: “My husband and I made the decision to relocate to Sedona in the fall of 2020 after spending one too many dark days in the Seattle area. Our plan was to build a home and...

Heavy smoke from Payson and Utah fires affecting Yavapai County

With wildfire activity increasing from the Southern Utah wildfires in addition to the Pius Wildfire near Payson, smoke is expected to be transported by prevailing winds over the next few days, according to Yavapai County Community Health Services Public...

Sedona City Council candidate Q&A: Holli Ploog

Age: 76 Time in Sedona: “I have lived in Sedona for 11 years.” Background: “I am vice mayor of Sedona. I am a retired attorney, working in the corporate world for over 30 years. For most of that time, I worked...

Sedona City Council candidate Q&A: Derek Pfaff

Age: 53 Time in Sedona: Eight years Background: “I was born and raised in Phoenix, studied classics and anthropology and attended law school, all at the University of Arizona. I’ve been practicing real estate law for the past 26 years. I...

Sedona City Council candidate Q&A: Kathy Kinsella

Age: 61 Time in Sedona: Eight years full-time resident and six preceding as a part-time resident Background: “My background is in government as a civil servant and an elected official. Prior to being elected to the Sedona City Council, I served...

Sedona mayoral candidate Q&A: John Martinez

Age: 75 Time in Sedona: 19-year resident, 33-year Sedona property owner Background: Carol and I have been together for 47 years. We met at Beckman Instruments. We moved to Sedona from California in 2005. My vast work experience begins as a...

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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