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Sedona mayoral candidate Q&A: Scott Jablow

Age: 68 Time in Sedona: 14 years Background: Law enforcement, 31 years Q: How do you propose to amend, alter or repeal Sedona’s building codes to help solve the housing shortage? A: “Building codes in the city are designed to keep people safe...

U.S. Supreme Court overturns Martin v. Boise and permits bans on camping on public land

With all the noise and chaos following the presidential debate and the final slew of rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court at the end of its current term, one ruling that will have immediate effects in Sedona and the...

The Fourth of July celebrates our wondrous variety

Thursday, July 4, marks the 248th anniversary of signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The Second Continental Congress voted two days earlier, on July 2, 1776, to pursue independence with the Lee Resolution, which read: “Resolved, That...

Register by July 1 to vote in July 30 primary election

The deadline to register to vote in the 2024 primary election on Tuesday, July 30, is coming up. Elections typically play out in two stages, a primary election, during which registered political parties pick their candidates for partisan seats, and...

Death on trail is warning to be safer outdoors in summer

Sedona Fire District crews and the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office Forest Patrol responded to the Hi-Line Trail at 2:08 p.m. Friday, June 14, following reports of an unresponsive 44-year-old woman, hiking with her husband and two young daughters, all...

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...

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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