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Sedona Charter School students belt out the tunes

Sedona Charter School students Leila Flores and Louis Bourque both won first place in their age groups during the second annual “Sedona’s Got Talent” competition on March 6 at the Sedona Performing Arts Center. Flores, a third grader, sang...

Documentary details creation of Sedona’s daring Hardline Trail

Specialized Bicycles released a 20-minute YouTube documentary titled “The Hard Line” on March 22, which covered the construction and development of the Hardline trail in Sedona, one of the area’s newest trails, completed this winter as part of Phase...

The Fey ready to rock the Verde Valley

“Our sound is an ’80s and ’90s-like approach to music. It has a feel like the Dandy Warhols … Veruca Salt, the Pretenders and Blondie but has the versatility to take most musical genres,” said Amy Winter, the lead singer...

Yonas Rahman plans future at ASU

Sedona Red Rock High School senior Yonas Rahman wrapped up his time as the Larson Newspapers sports intern during the fall of 2024 and is planning his life after graduation. Originally from New Jersey, Rahman moved to Sedona with his...

Pfaff heading to West Point’s Summer Leaders Experience 

Sedona Red Rock High School junior Ryan Pfaff’s summer vacation plans are a bit different from those of his peers. He will be spending a week of his summer at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., from...

Steve King and Yavapai County lobby for federal Secure Rural Schools funds

Yavapai County School Superintendent Steve King addressed a meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Sedona Bell Rock on Tuesday, April 1, his first speech to the group following his victory in an uncontested general election last year. King said...

Kevin Schindler talks Pluto discovery

Lowell Observatory Historian Kevin Schindler followed Sedona-based author Diane Phelps Budden’s talk on Clyde Tombaugh’s discovery of Pluto during the Sedona Heritage Museum’s “Tiny Pluto Has a Big Heart” presentation on March 27 with a discussion of the dwarf...

Sedona Parks & Rec preps egg hunt

The city of Sedona Parks and Recreation Department will be hatching its 14th annual Celebration of Spring at Posse Grounds Park at 525 Posse Ground Road on Saturday, April 19, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Parks and Recreation...

From Kansas farms to Pluto and the stars

The Sedona Heritage Museum hosted Sedona-based author Diane Phelps Budden and Lowell Observatory historian Kevin Schindler for a talk on “Tiny Pluto Has a Big Heart” on Thursday, March 27, as part of its Sedona Stories speaker series. “It’s a...

Sedona Heritage Museum serving up chuck wagon dinner and a Western film

The Sedona Heritage Museum will host its third annual Chuck Wagon Dinner and Movie fundraiser on Saturday, April 12. The doors open at 4:30 p.m. with the meal being served at 5 p.m. At 5:30 p.m. there will be...

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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