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Jon Hecht

County nixes Verde Connect due to costs

Bids for Verde Connect, a road project to connect State Route 260 with Cornville Road, came in over budget and Yavapai County voted to kill the project Nov. 18. Yavapai County was approved for a grant appli­cation from the Federal...

COVID cases increase in Verde Valley

The spread of the novel coronavirus in the Verde Valley reached an unprecedented high phase this past week. The week from Thursday, Oct. 29 through Thursday, Nov. 5 saw the biggest one-week increase in COVID-19 cases in the Verde...

Donna Michaels up by 179 votes in county supervisor race

The battle over Yavapai County District 3 Supervisor came down to the wire when Democrat Donna Michaels, who opened up a large lead in mail-in and early votes counted first, had her lead dwindle to just 179 votes ...

Libraries host NaNoWriMo

Elizabeth Bishop has been writing books since the 1970s. The Sedona-based play­wright, poet and novelist has been writing so consistently that she now comes out with multiple books in a year. While she has recently focused on her poetry, working...

Verde Valley and Sedona COVID cases increasing

After a spike in the early summer, the spread of the novel coronavirus in the Verde Valley was low for most of the late summer through early fall, dropping as low as just two new posi­tive tests in a...

Verde Valley Medical Center shifts its ER doctors to contractor

At Flagstaff Medical Center, the emer­gency department does not employ doctors the same way as the rest of the hospital system. Although the hospital is run by Northern Arizona Healthcare, doctors in the emer­gency room are actually employed by Flagstaff...

Early votes surge in Yavapai County

On Tuesday, Oct. 12, a group of over 30 cars carrying over 50 passen­gers drove from Sedona down State Route 89A to the Yavapai County Administration Building at 10 S. 6th St. in Cottonwood in order to vote early,...

NAH to maintain Sedona Emergency Department for at least 5 years

Updated Oct. 16 with quotes from the community After announcing this summer an intention to reevaluate the services provided in the Verde Valley, Northern Arizona Healthcare wrote in a Thursday, Oct. 15 press release that it would be making no...

COVID-19 may slow spread of flu

The Verde Valley continues to be in good shape fighting the novel corona­virus, with just 15 new cases in the week between Fridays, Oct. 2 through Oct. 9, with a total of 761 cases in the area since the...

Walt Blackman asks for second term

Walt Blackman was elected to the Arizona House of Representatives in District 6 as a Republican in 2018 after a 21-year career in the U.S. Army. In the two years he has been in office, Blackman points to one...

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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