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Jon Hecht

State Route 260 project receives last touches

The project to widen State Route 260 between Camp Verde and Cottonwood began in spring of 2017, two years ago. After months of work and an extended delay due to cold weather this past winter, the project is approaching...

Verde Valley Fair lights up Cottonwood

Cottonwood may be a small town, but you could see almost every member of it, as well as those coming from all over the Verde Valley and beyond, at the Verde Valley Fair, held on the fairgrounds off South...

SR 260 repaving resumes April 17

Construction on State Route 260 between Cottonwood and Camp Verde was supposed finish by the winter. However, an unusually wet fall, including rain from Hurricane Rosa, led to the Arizona Department of Transportation putting a halt on the final steps of the...

Vietnam Veterans honored at Fort Verde State Historical Park

On a sunny day at Fort Verde State Historical Park, a parade of dozens of motorbikes arrived from Sedona, carrying on them a troop of Vietnam veterans. Saturday, March 30, held the eighth annual Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day...

Verde Valley Medical Center wins top marks for care

There are 4,784 hospi­tals in the United States that administer Medicare. As part of the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, known as CMS, rates all those hospitals on seven categories before...

Yavapai County Supervisor’s assistant faces 3 fraud felonies

Brandi Bateman, executive assistant to Yavapai County District 3 Supervisor Randy Garrison, appeared in Yavapai Superior Court on Monday, March 18, after being charged with three felonies by Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk in November. ...

President signs bill with Cottonwood Land Exchange

For years — since the days of former District 3 Supervisor Chip Davis — Yavapai County offi­cials have been trying to exchange some land in Cottonwood and Cornville with the U.S. Forest Service. Realizing that...

Florence L. Spyrow named long-term president and CEO after serving as interim since March

On March 26, Rob Thames, president and CEO of Northern Arizona Healthcare, stepped down from the position after two years on the job. Florence L. Spyrow, who served as NAH’s vice president and chief medical officer of Flagstaff Medical...

Candidate Wendy Rogers aims to blunt the ‘blue wave’

Wendy Rogers arrived in Camp Verde without staff. It was just the Republican Congressional candidate and her husband Hal, stopping by at Las Margaritas in Camp Verde on Monday, Oct. 1, for a brief visit before further traversing the...

About Me

Jon is born and bred in the northeast but moved from New York City to Cottonwood in search of beautiful scenery and the small town life. He hikes a lot, and can usually be found sitting in the corner of school board and city council meetings, taking notes. He used to cover national politics for Bustle but likes covering small town politics more. Tell him whatever is going on in your neighborhood because he’ll probably be interested.
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