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Yavapai Community College board member McCasland doubles down on unconstitutional policy suppressing speech

Deb McCasland, the Yavapai Community College District 2 representative, recently sent a letter to college staff warning them to ignore criticism of college leadership and attempting to defend the board’s recent unconstitutional policy that endeavors to limit their free...

Death of ‘guru’ ends tragedy of ‘sweat lodge’ saga

A Jan. 4 tweet on the platform X, formerly known as Twitter, announced that self-proclaimed self-help “guru” James Arthur Ray, made notorious by his involvement in three deaths in the Verde Valley, had died at age 67. After taking a...

How to get a press release into our three newspapers

Everyone wants to be in their local newspaper, whether being interviewed for a story, photographed at a community festival or nonprofit event, asked a question for our People on the Street photos, competing in a game on our sports...

James Arthur Ray, a self-proclaimed ‘guru’ convicted for the ‘sweat lodge’ deaths of 3 people in 2009, has died

James Arthur Ray, 67, a self-styled self-help “guru” whose sweat lodge retreat event led to the death of three people in October 2009 at the Angel Valley Retreat Center five miles southwest of Sedona, died on Jan. 3, according...

Honoring Sedona veteran and prolific letter writer David A. Isquith

Approaching my 12th year as managing editor of the Sedona Red Rock News, I’ve received letters from hundreds of residents around the Verde Valley, but few were as consistent and prolific as Sedona resident David Aba Isquith, who had...

Sedona’s lobbyist could make good inroads on short-term rentals

The city of Sedona plans to continue hiring a lobbyist to campaign at the Arizona State Legislature for increased short-term rental regulations. The lobbyist was first approved by a 4-3 vote in 2021, over the objections of three council members,...

Celebration of life for ceramacist Dennis Ott to be held Sunday, Dec. 15, at the Sedona Performing Arts Center

Dennis Alan Ott, 81, of Sedona, Arizona, passed away peacefully on Oct. 12, 2024, at home, surrounded by close friends and his loving wife, Pat. Born in Seattle, Wash., on March 23, 1943, Dennis grew up in Southern California before...

Remembering the Pearl Harbor attack 83 years ago on Dec. 7, 1941

The Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service attacked United States military installations in the Territory of Hawaiʻi beginning at 8 a.m. on Dec. 7, 1941. Known as Operation Z during planning, the Japanese military leadership referred to the attack as...

Sedona police tase and arrest man who attempted home break-in, stole police car and led officers on foot chase

Sedona Police Department officers responded at 8:51 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 5, regarding a suspicious person, later identified as Nathan Andrew Nichols, a 28-year-old transient, who threw a chair into the window of a residence in the 200 block...

City Council to discuss annexing 3,422 acres into Sedona city limits at Dec. 10 meeting

Sedona City Council will discuss and consider possible action regarding approval of filing an annexation petition with the Yavapai County Recorder to annex approximately 3,422 acres of land, including the city’s Wastewater Treatment Plant and neighboring city-owned property, known...

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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