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Phelps threads ‘Needle in a Haystack’ to find Pluto

Diane Phelps, author of “Needle in a Haystack,” told Kelly Cadigan’s fourth-grade class at West Sedona School on Tuesday, March 10, that if they have a dream, they can make it happen. Her book, which the class read in the...

Stargazing with astronomers

Ten miles outside Cottonwood, away from the lights of the dark sky community, a very small sliver of moon doesn’t make it much brighter. But this dark night, Wednesday, Oct. 22, should be a great one for stargazing. Astronomers of...

Lowell names asteroid for poet, Sedona Red Rock News editor Christopher Fox Graham

Sedona Red Rock News Managing Editor and Sedona Poetry Slam founder Christopher Fox Graham has become the second Sedona resident to have a celestial body named after him with the recent redesignation of asteroid 1999 (AQ23) as 29722 Chrisgraham...

Hall visits SPL to discuss the Lowell Observatory’s future

Lowell Observatory Executive Director Jeffrey Hall visited the Sedona Public Library on Wednesday, June 26, to discuss the Saturday, Nov. 16, grand opening of Lowell’s $53 million Kemper and Ethel Marley Foundation Astronomy Discovery Center. Hall also discussed the design...

House Bill 2477 naming ‘Pluto’ the state of Arizona planet isn’t crazy, it’s inspiring

On Saturday, Feb. 17, I was asked to perform two slam poems at Lowell Observatory’s I Heart Pluto Festival, held at the Orpheum Theatre in Flagstaff. The event celebrates the moment on Feb. 18, 1930, when 24-year-old amateur astronomer Clyde...

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Cinco de Mayo comes early to Tlaquepaque

The Cinco de Mayo fun comes early this Saturday May 2, from 1 to 4 p.m., with annual celebration...

City weighs $2.4M service contracts for 7 nonprofits

Serving homeless families, Hope House of Sedona added to list of Community Service Providers The city of Sedona looks to...
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