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Scott Shumaker

Local firefighters head to California

On Saturday, Sept. 12, under a morning sky tinted an eerie orange by smoke from fires in California and Colorado, a U.S. Forest Service fire engine and work truck pulled out of Prescott National Forest’s Verde Ranger Station in...

Proposed VOC Hilton now faces HOA

Note: This story has been updated with a comment from the property owners requesting approval for the project. Last November, the Yavapai County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a zone change from rural residential to commercial for a 4.74-acre Village...

Oak Creek Canyon mining ban expired in 2019

State and federal agencies have focused attention on Oak Creek Canyon in recent years, initiating several proj­ects aimed at protecting the ecological treasure from heavy usage. Last September, the U.S. Forest Service put a big Oak Creek watershed restoration project...

Airport tackles big projects as Idell moves on

The Sedona-Oak Creek Airport Authority board of directors announced the resignation of board member and former board president Harold Idell at the board’s Aug. 24 meeting. SOCAA president Pam Fazzini said that Idell had previously expressed his intention to...

Airport Family Fun Day 2020 grounded

E tu, Airport Family Fun Day? Sedona Airport announced this week that this year’s Airport Family Fun Day, planned for October, is one of the latest event cancellations of the COVID-19 health crisis. Pam Fazzini, president of the Sedona-Oak Creek Airport...

NAH: We’re prepped for school reopenings

During a media briefing on Wednesday, Aug. 12, the day that Northern Arizona University began its fall term, Northern Arizona Healthcare officials said they were confident the hospital system could respond to the evolving health landscape as schools and...

Brisk bike business tries to outride shortage

Business is booming for bike shops in the Verde Valley, but a national shortage of bikes and bike parts has them riding a gnarly line. But the ride could be epic if bike and parts manufac­turers can deliver on promises...

Sedona Airport highlighted in new flight simulator game

Microsoft’s game developers at Asobo Studio and Xbox Game Studios are giving Sedona Airport pride of place among the world’s 37,000 airports in the 2020 edition of the Microsoft Flight Simulator video game, slated for release Aug. 18. Microsoft Flight...

Vote centers to open for primary election with precautions

Yavapai County Elections Director Lynn Constabile and Yavapai County Recorder Leslie Hoffman said in a release on Friday, July 31, that the county planned to open all 25 in-person vote centers for the Tuesday, Aug. 4 Primary Election. But COVID-19...

Center for Biological Diversity to sue USFS over cows

The Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity said it plans to sue the U.S. Forest Service in the coming weeks for not doing enough to keep errant livestock out of the streamside cottonwood-willow forests of the Verde River watershed. The riparian...

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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