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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...

Fired Deputy Police Chief Ryan Kwitkin sues city of Sedona and four staffers

Phoenix attorney Troy P. Foster has filed a lawsuit on behalf of former Sedona Deputy Police Chief Ryan Kwitkin against the city of Sedona, former Sedona City Manager Karen Osburn and current Sedona City Manager Anette Spickard, Sedona Police...

Yavapai Community College tries to silence free speech of its faculty and Governing Board members

Imagine that you and a friend co-own a struggling business with three other people and all of you own a 20% share. The business faces issues with marketing, connecting with customers, selling merchandise and high overhead due to overpaid managers....

Shop locally when buying holiday gifts this season

As we begin cooking our Thanksgiving meals, Black Friday will soon be here, followed by the start of the holiday shopping season. In years past, we would hear stories from around the country of neighbors turning into bargain warriors, elbowing...

Wins and losses are mixed in Arizona election

As the last of the election results are coming in from slow-counting Arizona, the returns from around the country have revealed a dramatic shift in the electorate that both major parties are trying to understand and adapt to. Donald...

64% of voters tell Sedona City Council’s car camp to park elsewhere

The results are in on Proposition 483, a referendum on the city of Sedona’s “Safe Place to Park” homeless worker car camp. The referendum succeeded, with the “no” vote overwhelmingly rebuking the “yes” vote that would have permitted the Sedona...

Election counting is complex when margins are close

Covering election results in Verde Valley is not as easy as one might think. First, Sedona is split, with about 70% of residents on the Yavapai County side of the city and the other 30% on the Coconino side. The...

Yavapai Community College’s refusal to meet with Sedona City Council is no surprise

Surprising nearly no one who has paid any attention to Yavapai Community College’s behavior toward the Verde Valley for, well, the last 50 years, the college’s executive staff declined an offer to appear before the Sedona City Council last...

Nikki Check wins Yavapai County District 3 seat

With final numbers still coming in from the Yavapai County Recorder on the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 13, the Larson Newspapers Decision Desk has called the Yavapai County District 3 seat for Democrat Nikki Check, defeating Republican Lori Drake. With...

2024 General Election Results

Election results will be posted here after 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 5. Bookmark this page if you want to check results as they are posted. Arizona State Legislature Arizona State Senate winning vote breakdown The following chart shows the total number...

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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