Christopher Fox Graham

COMBINED REGISTRATION & TURNOUTCoconino County — Registered: 86,421

Vote centers for the Tuesday, July 21, Primary Election closed at 7 p.m. tonight. WYavapai and Coconino counties released their results of early ballots processed through Monday, July 20, at around 8 p.m. then from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m., the counties will releae the count of ballots cast at voting locations on election day. […]

For parents and students in Sedona and the Verde Valley, this week is big news as kids begin returning to school. Growing up in the Phoenix area, our schools got out at the end of May; we had June and July and most of August to hang out and goof off, sprinkled with orga­nized activities […]

The sudden and unceremonious departure of Lisa Rhine from the presidency of Yavapai College ends a tenure marked by tumult and disregard for a third of her tax base in the Verde Valley — a tenure ultimately and unfortunately indistinguishable from that of her predecessor, Penelope “Penny” Wills. Wills began her tenure as president of […]

At approximately midnight on the morning of Thursday, Aug. 13, a Camp Verde Marshal’s Office deputy conducted a civil traffic stop on a vehicle traveling on Interstate 17 near State Route 260 in Camp Verde. The vehicle was being driven by 22-year-old John Sanchez, who was traveling from Phoenix, Arizona, with a female passenger. During […]

On Monday, Aug. 24, from about 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. the Sedona Police Department, Sedona Fire District and the Verde Valley Regional SWAT team will conduct a multi-agency, full-scale training exercise in Uptown to practice their collaborative response to various public safety threats. The exercise will be held at 401 Jordan Road in Uptown. […]

When I started my local journalism career in Sedona as Larson Newspapers’ copy editor under Managing Editor Ryan Van Benthuysen back in 2004, I got a crash course in how local media and the news business operated in the real world. I had been the senior copy editor at The State Press student newspaper at […]

When I started my local journalism career in Sedona as Larson Newspapers’ copy editor under Managing Editor Ryan Van Benthuysen back in 2004, I got a crash

The world was saddened to learn about the death of Dolly Parton on Tuesday, Aug. 25. Tributes to her work, life and career are popping up all over the internet, transcending regional, partisan, class and ethnic lines as Americans collectively mourn one of the best of us. For far more authoritative and detailed biographies, I’ll […]

At a meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 2, the Roseburg City Council in Oregon voted 7-1 to offer its city manager post to Sedona City Manager Anette Spickard. Spickard emailed a resignation letter to Sedona City Council on the morning of Wednesday, Sept. 3 “Mayor and Council,“I am writing to formally notify you that I have […]