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Jaiden Pallares will join USMC

“It’s getting real now. I took the oath, I can’t really back out now,” Sedona Red Rock High School senior Jaiden Pallares said of his decision to join the U.S. Marine Corps after he graduates in May. He expects...

Scorpion track and field season now underway

The Sedona Red Rock High School varsity track and field season began at Notre Dame Preparatory High School in Scottsdale on Wednesday, March 5, and was followed by the first of two home meets on Wednesday, March 12. “We lost...

Sedona hosts meetup with Canmore, Jasło

The Sedona Sister Cities Association hosted a town hall at Sedona City Hall on Saturday, Feb. 22, to hear presentations from Jeremy Elbourne, the executive director of artsPlace in Canmore, Alberta, Canada, Elwira Musialowicz-Cozzi, the director of the Jasielski...

LISA expands to Verde Valley schools

The board of directors of the Cornville-based nonprofit Low- Income Student Aid voted on Feb. 3 to expand to all schools within the Cottonwood-Oak Creek School District and into the Clarkdale-Jerome School District. “At Clarkdale-Jerome School, we understand that it...

SCS wins Sedona’s Got Talent

The second annual “Sedona’s Got Talent” competition, hosted by the nonprofit Parangello Players for students from Sedona Charter School and West Sedona School, took place at the Sedona Performing Arts Center on Thursday, March 6, featuring 18 acts, funded...

St. Patrick’s Parade marches Uptown Saturday

Even though Monday, March 17 is St. Patrick’s Day, the 53rd annual St. Patrick’s Parade will take place along Jordan Road in Uptown at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 15. Thirty-one groups have registered to spread the Luck of...

Tennis about to serve up its 2025 season

The Sedona Red Rock High School tennis team, led by Head Coach Andrew Ellis in his third year with the program, will begin its 2025 season at home on Tuesday, March 18, at 3:30 p.m. against the Kingman Bulldogs. Senior...

Sedona International Film Festival awards Jeremy Piven

Emmy-winning actor Jeremy Piven, best known for his role as Hollywood agent Ari Gold in the television series “Entourage,” accepted a Career Achievement Award from the Sedona International Film Festival on Thursday, Feb. 27, following a screening of his...

APS inspects lines with drone

Arizona Public Service’s predictive maintenance group used a drone to inspect power lines for damage and vegetation growth at the Turkey Creek Trail East Parking Lot on the morning of Monday, Feb. 24. The company’s drones carry high-definition and infrared...

Sedona Winds renovates its ‘memory care’ assisted living area

After about a year of work and $200,000 in renovations Sedona Winds Assisted Living in the Village of Oak Creek unveiled a new 20-person “memory support” assisted living area with individual apartments that it is branding as “Elements” on...

About Me

Joseph K. Giddens grew up in southern Arizona and studied natural resources at the University of Arizona. He later joined the National Park Service in many different roles focusing on geoscience throughout the West. Drawn to deep time and ancient landscapes he’s worked at: Dinosaur National Monument, Petrified Forest National Park, Badlands National Park and Saguaro National Park among several other public land sites. Prior to joining Sedona Red Rock News, he worked for several Tucson outlets as well as the Williams-Grand Canyon News and the Navajo-Hopi Observer. He frequently is reading historic issues of the Tombstone Epitaph newspaper and daydreaming about rockhounding. Contact him at jgiddens@larsonnewspapers.com or (928) 282-7795 ext. 122.
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