In the Arizona art world, Peggy Lanning is a self-made maven. With few favors afforded her as she started out in the 1970s, Lanning overcame cultural and financial hurdles to provide representation for American Indian artists too often...
The Sedona Educational Foundation, modeled from the strategic plan of Sedona-Oak Creek School District Superintendent Dennis Dearden, saw success in drawing donors even before it received finishing touches and filed the last bits of paperwork. ...
America’s dance floors have come a long way from powdered wigs, petticoats and rigid propriety. But on Friday, March 8, students in Elizabeth Tavasci’s West Sedona School classroom took a small two-step back in time to share an 18th-century...
At the Sedona Oak-Creek School District Governing Board meeting on Tuesday, March 5, two agenda items generated the most discussion: The adoption of the Advanced Placement Capstone for seniors and district personnel contract approvals.
District Curriculum Director Deana DeWitt proposed...
When Ken Zoll visited one of the more than 2,500 catalogued archaeological heritage sites in the Verde Valley roughly a month ago, he and his colleagues were dismayed to see signs of human tampering and...
Normally, the sky’s the limit for the kids at West Sedona School, but since Debbie Sanders’ sixth-grade class of advanced readers were writing science-fiction, the limit extended well beyond the sky to distant planets, stars...
In anticipation for uncharacteristically heavy snow forecast to fall intermittently from late night Wednesday, Feb. 20, all the way through Friday, Feb. 22, many Verde Valley school districts have cancelled classes on Thursday, Feb. 21. ...
Technology buffs have a new Arizona license plate option available to them with the introduction of electronic digital plates. For over a year, the Arizona Department of Transportation has tested this...
“Nobody had ever come to us with an official proposal, no one ever pitched an official plan,” Hermen said. At a special work session of the Sedona-Oak Creek School District held on Jan. 29 to propose the...
When asked what she was most surprised by about an American high school, Virginia Girello said jokingly, “People were not dancing on the tables and singing like in ‘High School Musical.’” ...
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