James T Kling

Sedona’s youth robotics team builds a way

Five Sedona middle-schoolers gathered around a table after school on Monday, Oct. 20, to figure out the best way to use their cannon. Or at least, how they could mount it to their robot. The students’ goal is to learn...

Daughter, dancers, SIFF and Tlaquepaque celebrate sculptor Waddell

The late Verde Valley sculptor John Henry Waddell sculpted about 150 bronze figurative sculptures in his lifetime. When he died in 2019, many of statues, including female sculptures now on exhibit at Tlaquepaque, were left at his studio, his...

SOCSD board asks for 1A status, flag football

The Sedona-Oak Creek School District Governing Board voted Tuesday, Oct. 14, to add flag football as a new Arizona Interscholastic Association sport for the school for fall 2026 and to petition the AIA to move all Sedona sports to...

Scorpions boys soccer to host state semifinal

UPDATE: The Scorpions boys soccer team won its quarterfinal game on Tuesday, Oct. 28, against Northland Prep Academy 1-1, with a PK advantage of 4-3. It will host the semifinal game against the Blue Ridge Yellowjackets at Sedona Red...

Community assists Alaska artist paint Ranger Station mural

When James Havens’ mural in the barn at Ranger Station Park started out on Oct. 10 at 10 a.m., the paint was only about as high as a third grader could reach: Cacti on the ground, a painter beginning...

Rotary hosts Taste of Sedona Village event

After being delayed a week due to weather, the Taste of Sedona Village still brought a couple hundred people to taste beers and wines, ice cream and food from local restaurants. “Even though it was sunny, it would have been...

Polio survivor David Potter talks to Rotarians

David Potter, a member of the Rotary Club of Sedona Village, was 3 when he was infected with polio in 1955 while living on the outskirts of London. “I was in the hospital for a month, one week in intensive...

Sedona Fire Station 4 work underway

Dibble Engineering trucks drove up and down Jordan Street around 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 7, using GPS data to find utility sewer and gas lines along the street in preparation for the construction of Sedona Fire District’s Station...

Scorpions win 11-0 after first loss of the season

Within 40 seconds of its Thursday, Oct. 16, game against BASIS Flagstaff, Sedona Red Rock High School boys soccer team got their first goal of the game. After 60 minutes of game time, if there’s a difference in score of...

‘Deceptions, lies and alibis’

Piquant Peach performs poetry per perfect western parlance Whether it’s drunken poker players, a clever bank heist or a shifty sheriff, the Southwest has a unique history with cowboys, animals, wranglers, guns, glory, mishaps — and poetry. Michael Coyote Peach particularly...

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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