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Christopher Fox Graham

Kids, families and revelers gear up for Halloween

Halloween is by far the biggest holiday in the Verde Valley. The big day is Thursday, Oct. 31, as resi­dents and visitors celebrate the holiday with parties, concerts and trick-or-treating all over our cities and surrounding communities. As you can...

Judge slams mayor of Surprise who had critic arrested at council meeting and tosses case on First Amendment grounds

While we are a hyper-local newspaper, there are often news items in Arizona or the nation that pique our interest with regard to democracy, the rule of law, journalism or the Constitution and warrant a public discussion in our...

Lowell Observatory to open $53M Marley Foundation Astronomy Discovery Center on Nov. 16

Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff is set to open its new 40,000-square-foot, $53 million Marley Foundation Astronomy Discovery Center on Saturday, Nov. 16. The ribbon-cutting is set for 10:30 a.m. and the facility will officially open at 11 a.m. Dignitaries...

Sedona’s outrageously high pay-to-play development fees dooms workers, modest housing and workforce housing

Last month Sedona City Council heard a pitch from a Baltimore-based consulting firm about reasons to jack up Sedona’s already-high development fees. Council members seemed aghast to learn the fees we’re charged to build a home in Sedona are...

Bystander’s video shows end of Sedona-to-Village of Oak Creek car chase and arrest of suspect

A bystander at a Village of Oak Creek restaurant captured on several videos a of car chase through the Village of Oak Creek on Saturday, Oct. 19, and the subsequent arrest of a man who had led Sedona police...

Astronomical events provide amazing wonders for us to behold and study

In the last two weeks, we’ve seen some amazing astronomical and atmospheric phenomena. First, we saw red glimpses of the Aurora Borealis last week, caused by a coronal mass ejection of plasma from our sun slamming charged particles into earth’s...

Sedona loses iconic ceramicist Dennis Ott [March 23, 1943–Oct. 12, 2024]

Dennis Ott was an iconic figure in Sedona after leading the Sedona Arts Center’s Ceramics Department for the past 22 years, teaching thousands of students from young children to seniors and even a few celebrities the joy of...

Smoke lingers due to our wildfire management

The Verde Valley has seen a fair number of days with heavy smoke over the last few weeks as wildfires and control burns blaze in Northern Arizona. Naturally-occurring wildfires over which we have little control begin with lightning strikes in...

Sedona City Council wise to not pursue Sedona Airport takeover

We commend the Sedona City Council for its unanimous decision to refrain from taking over the Sedona Airport. The concept was floated as a potential workaround to the city’s conflict with the Sedona-Oak Creek Airport Authority and, to a lesser...

Journalistic ethics dictate our coverage and how we write the news

Having been in journalism for over 20 years and managing editor of Larson Newspapers for 11 years, I’ve seen all manner of stories, drama, scandals and internecine fighting in local government. The Sedona Red Rock News, The Camp Verde Journal...

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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