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Scott Shumaker

City News

NAU tests Sedona, VOC wastewater for virus

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*UPDATE: This story was updated on June 10 with results from Sedona's wastewater testing. People infected with SARS-CoV- 2, the virus that causes COVID-19, excrete the virus in their waste, so scientists across the country are hopeful that screening wastewater...
County News

USFS fire staff work overtime

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Informing people that they can't build a cheerful, light-giving campfire is not an easy job, but John Artley, a fire prevention technician for the Coconino National Forest, is working overtime doing that as he patrols National Forest lands surrounding...
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New technology helps biologists track down invasive species

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Last fall, a worker at the Page Springs Fish Hatchery noticed an invasive New Zealand mudnsail — a tiny snail with a cone-shaped shell the size of F.D.R.’s ear on a dime — launching a high stakes and ultimately...
Human Interest

Woman finds rescue hero, leading to spark

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Following the April 29 Sedona Red Rock News article entitled “Runner looking for trail hero,” about a semi-anonymous Good Samaritan who carried an injured runner to safety, the Good Samaritan has been identified. The trail hero is Even Rogers, who...
County News

Construction maintains pace during pandemic

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In late March and April, when stay-at-home recom­mendations and closures of local attractions slowed whole sectors of the local economy, workers that could still be seen heading to job sites each morning were builders, contractors, handymen and those in...
In Other News

DES to aid the self-employed

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The self-employed, freelancers and others who have lost work during the coronavirus pandemic but didn’t qualify for regular unemployment insurance may be getting relief this week. According to a release from the Arizona Department of Economic Security, the agency has...
Human Interest

Runner looking for trail hero

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Sydney Linden would like to identify her trail angel, a man named Evan who carried her a half mile on the Adobe Jack Trail to her friend’s car after she broke her shinbone while running on April 17. ...
In Other News

New fence divides neighborhood over national forest access

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On April 6, two homeowners in the Pinon Woods III subdivision just south of Courthouse Butte in the Village of Oak Creek completed work on a six-foot chainlink fence on a one-foot strip of land that lies between the...
County News

USFS reverts to ‘old’ fire plan in time of coronavirus

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With the prospect of a wildland fire season ramping up at time when the COVID-19 respiratory virus is still lingering in the population, local fire fighting agencies are planning an aggressive suppression strategy this year aimed at extin­guishing fires...
Human Interest

Sedona birders look toward ‘dawn chorus’

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While a lot of human travel has paused temporarily, that has not slowed down the planet’s birds, which are on the move across oceans and continents as winter turns to spring in the northern hemisphere. Birders in the Verde...
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About Me

Scott Shumaker has covered Arizona news since 2012. His work has previously appeared in Scottsdale Airpark News, High Country News, The Entertainer! Magazine and other publications. Before moving to the Village of Oak Creek, he lived in Flagstaff, Phoenix and Reno, Nevada.
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