Wine Tourism

Students sip up wine class, learning viticulture and enology

Southwest Wine Center bottles last of season’s grapes into future vintage Yavapai College’s Southwest Wine Center routinely turns water into wine. In preparation of the final bottling of its season, on July 18, Jason McCluskey took four of his students through...

Tourism continues as lead economic driver in Verde Valley

The Verde Valley Regional Economic Forum on Oct. 21 in Cottonwood, saw well over 50 leaders across the Verde Valley come together to discuss economic progress, including how to shape tourism to residents’ advantage. New Cottonwood City Manager Mario Cifuentez...

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Floods close Out of Africa

2 nights of water tears fences, roads across wildlife refuge’s 50 acres, but all 200 animals safe Update to this...

Retired US Air Force officer takes final flight

Family, friends help former pilot fly wild blue yonder again When 84-year-old Jay Thompson first moved to Cottonwood in May,...
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