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‘Every’ little thing he does is magic

Gary Every spent Monday, April 21, as the Artist in the Classroom for Sedona Red Rock High School digital photography teacher Cindy Wilmer, where he presented his program “Capturing the Light” and discussed the artistic and business sides of...

Tony Hauserman to lead Scorpions football team

The lights will be turned back on Friday nights this fall. Sedona Red Rock High School Principal Heather Isom announced on Monday, April 28, that the school will resurrect its varsity tackle football program in the fall under the...

VSVV, city host Volunteer Expo

The Volunteer Sedona & the Verde Valley nonprofit and the city of Sedona’s Sustainability Department will be hosting a Volunteer Expo recruitment event on Wednesday, May 14, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Hub at Posse Grounds Park....

Noah Puckett is Dartmouth-bound for mechanical engineering

Noah Puckett, 18, a Verde Valley School senior who spent much of his childhood traveling and studying abroad, will be attending Dartmouth College this fall to major in mechanical engineering. “Then I hope to either minor or double major in...

Beers and K-9 Sam visit West Sedona School

Sedona Police K-9 Sam and his handler, Officer Catherine Beers, visited Kelly Cadigan’s fourth-grade class at West Sedona School on Wednesday, April 23, to celebrate Sam’s upcoming third birthday and recognize the students’ fundraising during the “Minute That Matters”...

D’Angelo plans to become a firefighter

Sedona Red Rock High School senior and Cottonwood resident Nathyn D’Angelo plans to enroll at Yavapai College after graduation to become a firefighter. D’Angelo said he made the decision because he felt that he was becoming increasingly mature and focused. “I...

High School Needs Ramp for Outdoor Graduation

Update Monday, May 5: Sedona Red Rock High School has had someone reach out to for a donation for the wheelchair ramp for graduation. Sedona Red Rock High School is looking for a wheelchair ramp to assist disabled students with...

Brewer has world records certified at SRRHS

Uptown resident Britt Brewer recently had eight inaugural records in the men’s 60 to 69 age group certified by the World Ultra Cycling Association while attempting to set a 500-mile endurance record on a long-stride elliptical bicycle at the...

Judges select Sedona’s first Poets Laureate: Gary Every and Anya Blue Lior

Gary Every and Anya Blue Lior, a 16-year-old sophomore at Verde Valley School, will soon be named the city of Sedona’s two keepers of the written word when they will be appointed to two-year terms as Sedona poet laureate...

Graduating Abel Villa may be back to teach

While Abel Villa, an 18-year-old senior at Sedona Red Rock High School, plans to enroll at Northern Arizona University in the fall to major in elementary education, you might be seeing him on a Sedona-Oak Creek School District campus...

About Me

Joseph K. Giddens grew up in southern Arizona and studied natural resources at the University of Arizona. He later joined the National Park Service in many different roles focusing on geoscience throughout the West. Drawn to deep time and ancient landscapes he’s worked at: Dinosaur National Monument, Petrified Forest National Park, Badlands National Park and Saguaro National Park among several other public land sites. Prior to joining Sedona Red Rock News, he worked for several Tucson outlets as well as the Williams-Grand Canyon News and the Navajo-Hopi Observer. He frequently is reading historic issues of the Tombstone Epitaph newspaper and daydreaming about rockhounding. Contact him at jgiddens@larsonnewspapers.com or (928) 282-7795 ext. 122.
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