James T Kling

Sedona’s teenage Ferchoff sisters learn to fly

All 3 in stages of earning pilot’s licenses At 14, Elly Ferchoff is too young to fly an airplane solo, but that hasn’t stopped her from starting her training. “I’ve done different maneuvers,” she said. “And I’ve taken off.” She, along with...

Yavapai College plans to change board policies

May meet in person, restore call to the public and end ban on members speaking to the press Board Discussions After a motion by District 3 representative, Toby Payne, the Yavapai College Governing Board voted 32, with Chairwoman Deb McCasland and...

VOC roundabouts to receive first 2 artworks by April

Camille Cox, one of the original co-chairs for the Art in the Roundabouts Committee in the Village of Oak Creek, announced to the Rotary of Sedona Village on Feb. 19 plans to install the first two pieces of art...

SOCSD board accepts $10M for Big Park

Former school property in VOC appraised at $9.5M in April 2025 The Sedona-Oak Creek School District Governing Board voted 4-0 to accept a $10 million bid for the former Big Park Community School property from Basil and Mimi Maher, and...

Middle-schoolers learn life skills from Rotary

In the first of its kind “Life Skills Day” at the Sedona Red Rock Junior High School, eighth-grader Aria Grandi took three classes out of the possible 11: Sports Readiness, How to Not be a Jerk and First-Aid. Her favorite...

Residents voice hopes if VOC school is sold

The Sedona-Oak Creek School District’s survey on the use of the former Big Park Community School property is still open, but the results so far have largely said to keep the Community Library Sedona branch on the property. The SOCSD...

Locally shot short film on bullying debuts

Local artist Amy Waddell has been a writer-for-hire for a while. “I’m primarily a fiction and screenwriter, but I had been writing animation in Paris,” she said. “I’d been writing on a show called ‘PJ Masks,’ which is a kids...

SOCSD board considers 4 bids for school

The Sedona-Oak Creek School District is looking at four bids from potential buyers of Big Park Community School in the Village of Oak Creek. While the current property for the shuttered school is zoned Residential, Single Family Limited, Sedona-Oak Creek...

Tee Pace teaches poetry to students at SRRHS

Many of the students who were in Tiffany Wilson’s Special Education classroom at Sedona Red Rock High School last year had trouble writing about themselves. Now, with the help of poet Tee Pace, they were all able to accomplish that...

Rotarians hear youth leadership campers

Fourteen students from the Verde Valley and Sedona attended the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards camp at the Pinerock Camp and Retreat Center in Prescott over Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. weekend. Twelve of the 14 students were from Sedona Red...

About Me

James T. Kling grew up from coast to coast living in places like North Carolina and Washington State. He studied political science and history at Purdue University in Indiana, where he also worked for the Purdue Exponent student newspaper covering topics across the state, even traveling across the Midwest for journalism conferences. James has a passion for reading as well as writing, often found reading historical fiction, fantasy and sci-fi. As the name suggests, he is named after Captain James T. Kirk from Star Trek. He spends his free time writing creative stories, dancing and playing music.
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