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Scott Shumaker

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USFS closes 9 popular Sedona-area sites

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On April 3, Coconino National Forest Supervisor Laura Jo West issued an order closing many of the most popular and iconic trails and recreation sites in the Red Rock Ranger District in order to limit the spread of COVID-19. ...
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Benefactors add fuel to House of Apache Fires

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The door to the House of Apache Fires, situated on a cliff high above Oak Creek in Red Rock State Park, would not open as Park Manager Heidi Erickson worked the knob on a drizzly day last week. ...
Human Interest

Donated West Sedona houses to become homes for disabled

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In March 2018, a sale closed on a home on a 2.25-acre prop­erty off Dry Creek Road in West Sedona. Two months later the same buyer closed a deal on the home diagonal to it. Two months after...
County News

New manager takes controls at Sedona Airport

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On Feb. 26, the Sedona-Oak Creek Airport Authority board of directors voted unanimously to make Interim General Manager Ed Rose the permanent general manager of the airport. Having applied to work at Sedona Airport three...
County News

Page Springs fish hatchery resumes after mudsnail quarantine

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The Page Springs Fish Hatchery, operated by the Arizona Game & Fish Department, is back to normal business after clearing an invasion of New Zealand mudsnails detected in the fall.  The Page Springs Fish Hatchery...
Human Interest

Grussing puts his ‘aerial tripod’ up for sale

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A “for sale” flyer has been hanging on the bulletin board at the Sedona Airport terminal for the past year.  On it, there’s a photo of Ted Grussing, 82, standing with a huge grin in front of a...
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Archaeologist says Sinagua were colorful

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Coconino National Forest archaeologist of 45 years, Peter J. Pilles Jr., spoke at a Sedona Gem and Mineral Club meeting on Feb. 18 on the pre-Columbian Sinagua’s use of minerals.  Much of his talk highlighted the ancient people’s...
County News

Sedona Airport adds to its taxiway

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Airport Mesa has gotten a little bit bigger since January — about 10,000 cubic yards bigger, Sedona Airport interim general manager Ed Rose estimated.  It’s the equivalent in volume to a giant blimp-worth of red...
County News

Jeep tours help Red Rock Ranger District cross $1M mark

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Between 2016 and 2019, commercial permit revenues from guided Jeep tours in the Red Rock Ranger District grew 65%, helping push the district’s total annual revenue from commercial permit fees above $1 million for the federal fiscal year that ended...
Human Interest

Naylor takes museum audience on tour of state parks

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Roger Naylor, a prolific Arizona travel writer based in Cottonwood, gave a crowd of over 80 people gath­ered at the Sedona Heritage Museum on Wednesday, Jan. 29 a tour of gems found in Arizona’s state park system. The Arizona...
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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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