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Wine gets Verde Valley named a top travel destination

Expect a lot more tourists in 2013, especially internationals, planning on visiting the Verde Valley’s growing winery industry. The Verde Valley was recently named No. 9 of the Lonely Planet’s Top 10 U.S. Travel Destinations for 2013. “The Verde...

Judge opens door for first two marijuana dispensaries

A court ruling last week paved the way for the first medical marijuana dispensaries to open in Arizona. Dispensaries waiting to open around the state have been on hold pending numerous lawsuits from local and county officials attempting to...

School puts on holiday show

During rehearsals of a small theater group’s annual performance of “A Christmas Carol,” the actors become nervous when they hear an inspector is coming to review their work. Sedona Red Rock High School theater students decided to push their...

Yavapai reports 81.57% voter turnout

With the Nov. 6 general election long since over and the also-rans fading into memory or preparing for 2014, numbers reveal Yavapai County set several records regarding voter turnout, early ballots mailed in and provisional ballots cast. In terms...

Other counties follow Yavapai’s example on bath salts

Local tactics to battle drugs have again spread across Arizona. To fight the synthetic drugs known as spice and bath salts, officials in Maricopa and Pinal counties are following the lead of Yavapai County and targeting not the manufacturers...

Coconino burns piles this week

This weekend’s weather will determine what and where Coconino National Forest fire managers choose to burn next week, depending on the amount of moisture this storm provides. Fire managers are tentatively planning for both broadcast burn and pile burn...

Don Larry ‘Doc’ Adams

Don Larry ‘Doc’ Adams March 5, 1961 Don Larry “Doc” Adams, 51, of Sedona, died recently. Adams owned Adams Chiropractic Clinic. He served Sedona Red Rock High School as a team doctor, coach and mentor. He is survived by...

Obama, Flake, Kirkpatrick win 2012 General Election

The 2012 election took place Tuesday, Nov. 6, and all 1,667 precincts in Arizona have reported their numbers. However, Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett said Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 7, an estimated 602,334 early and provisional ballots ...

USFS temporarily closes Vultee Arch Road

The Red Rock Ranger District of the Coconino National Forest announces a temporary, four-day closure for the Vultee Arch Road, Forest Road 152C, beginning Monday, Oct. 29. This closure will allow for the use of heavy equipment during road...

ShakeOut prepares 62,000 Arizonans for earthquakes

Earthquakes struck all over Arizona at 10:18 a.m. on Oct. 18, prompting some 62,000 residents to take shelter from the pretend temblors and put their earthquake survival skills to the test. The first-ever Great Arizona ShakeOut simulated a two-minute...

About Me

Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rock News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been a guest contributor in Editor & Publisher magazine and featured in the LA Times, New York Post and San Francisco Chronicle. He lectures on journalism, media law and the First Amendment and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. In January 2025, the International Astronomical Union formally named asteroid 29722 Chrisgraham (1999 AQ23) in his honor at the behest of Lowell Observatory, citing him as "an American journalist and longtime managing editor of Sedona Red Rock News. He is a nationally-recognized slam poet who has written and performed multiple poems about Pluto and other space themes."
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