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Sedona Winds renovates its ‘memory care’ assisted living area

After about a year of work and $200,000 in renovations Sedona Winds Assisted Living in the Village of Oak Creek unveiled a new 20-person “memory support” assisted living area with individual apartments that it is branding as “Elements” on...

Elle Douglas is Sedona Police Department’s Cadet of the Year

Seventeen-year-old Verde Valley School senior Elle Douglas was named the Sedona Police Department’s 2024 Cadet of the Year during a ceremony at the at the Sedona Elks Lodge on Dec. 15. Sedona Police Department AwardsThis is the second of a...

Sedona-Oak Creek School District collecting coins for Special Olympics

To celebrate March as Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month, the Sedona-Oak Creek School District and Sedona police officers Catherine Beers and Mike Lucas are inviting students, staff and the community to participate in the “Minute That Matters” campaign running from...

Britton Brewer wants to be the man that pedals 500 miles

Uptown resident Britton Brewer is recruiting volunteers to help him set a world record in the World Ultra Cycling Association’s 500-mile Outdoor Track category in the mens’ 60 to 69 age group with his elliptical bicycle. Any records that Brewer...

Scorpions golfers hit the links for 2025 season

The Sedona Red Rock High School varsity golf team teed off their 2025 season at Agave Highlands Golf Course in Cornville with a match against Chino Valley, Holbrook and Camp Verde on Feb. 25, which was followed by a...

River runs through the competition

Seventeen-year-old mountain biker River Valdez of Sedona finished in third place in the 2024 USA Cycling Cross-Country Mountain Bike National Championships in July at at Bear Creek Mountain Resort in Pennsylvania and in 16th place at the 2024 UCI...

DFFM hosts Firewise workday at Coffee Pot subdivision

Hand crews from Diablo Canyon and Phoenix and inmates working under the authority of the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management conducted brush removal around the Cottages at Coffeepot homeowners’ association on the morning of Feb. 3. “Coffee Pot...

Scorpion Softball to build on experience from last season

The Sedona Red Rock High School’s softball team was scheduled to begin the season against the St. John Paul II Lions at home on Feb. 26, followed by a game against the Mayer Wildcats on Feb. 28. Pitcher Natalie Juan...

Five vie for Yavapai County post 

Wiley Cline, John Hughes, Dee Jenkins, Thomas Thurman and Anthony James Utz have filed letters of interest in being appointed to the Yavapai County Board of Supervisors for District 2, succeeding former Supervisor James Gregory , who announced his...

A cleaner quicker Sedona 

When most people have an unsatisfactory experience with a business, they might leave an online review. Sedona resident Debbie Johnson did something else in October 2014. “So I bought a car wash, and was there with me every minute...

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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