Camp Verde, AZ- Seed Saving for Home Gardeners Presentation at Camp Verde Community Library Curious about saving seeds from your own vegetable garden? Do you want to continue growing favorite varieties year after year? Gardeners across the country are saving their own seeds. For our area, it means that we can develop local varieties that are disease and pest resistant in our soils, are able to withstand our extreme heat, our dry climate, and produce well in our local environment. “Seed Saving for Home Gardeners” will be presented by a Local Yavapai County Master Gardener where we will learn the basics of saving seeds. Topics to…
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SEDONA, Ariz. – The city invites the public to save the date for its next artist reception on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025 from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Council Chambers and the Vultee Conference Room at City Hall to view naturalist Greg Lawson’s photographs and impressionistic painter Hope Riccardi’s work, on display through Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026. Special music guest will be violinist Drew Riccardi. Lawson has been recording images ever since he captured his first on the streets of New York City as an early teen. His “painting with light” photographs have been created in all still-camera formats,…
Sedona, AZ –– Clear your calendars, cancel your boring weekend plans, and prepare your wallets. On Friday and Saturday, September 12–14, 2025 , The Oak Creek Arts & Crafts Show is back at Sedona Vista Village, 6657 Hwy 179, and this year it’s bigger, better, and sassier than ever. Let’s be honest—where else can you go to see art, grab a burger, buy lingerie, get your fortune read, and then top it all off by signing up for Verizon internet? Nowhere. That’s where. Plaza Perks: A Shopping Safari Inside Sedona Vista Village, you’ll find more temptations than a midnight fridge…
By Sylvia Sepielli Sedona, AZ — The Master Plan dated July 2025 is a progress report of surveys, discussions, design options and assumptions. https://plansedona.com/master-plan-july-2025-draft?document=1 If this were a private project looking for investors, underlying feasibility studies, fiscal and developmental requirements would be mandatory. The City of Sedona is the owner/developer, with debt on the property. It also controls zoning, building codes, design review, approvals, oversees the Fiscal Budgets and City Funds, as well as determines the Master Developer and how parcels to individual developers will be sold. This closed-circuit control affects all residents for better or worse. Fiscal year budget…
Sedona, AZ – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to partner with The Artists Consortium to present the first-ever in-person Master Musicians Symposium on Friday, Sept. 19 at 6:00 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. Sedona’s been waiting for this! Our local, popular and widely acclaimed Master Musicians are convening together on stage to play their unique instruments, share their “aha moment’ when music enriched their lives to the point when they decided to go professional, exchange info about their careers, and why Sedona is their ART MECCA. It’s a first-ever gig that you won’t want to miss!…
By Tommy Acosta I can honestly say, having grown up in the Bronx in the 60s, that if it had not been for the Beatles I most likely would have grown up to be a criminal or been killed in a violent gang war. I’ll never forget that night when on the Ed Sullivan Show the Beatles made their first appearance.I was glued to the TV. I was mesmerized. I saw the girls in the audience screaming. They were just so friggen cool. I saw myself there on a stage someday, rocking and singing and girls going wild over me.…
By Bear Howard As the United States approaches its 250th year, one might expect a season of reflection and renewal—a chance to measure how far we have come since 1776 and how we might grow into the next quarter millennium. Instead, the country seems to be tumbling toward the darkest echoes of its own past, replaying the very sins that once scarred its promise. The signs are everywhere if one cares to look. The president recently boasted, “I love the smell of deportation in the morning,” a cynical parody of the infamous line from Apocalypse Now: “I love the smell…
By Amaya Gregory Sedona, AZ — Today has been an interesting day. While mowing an acre of grass, taking a hoe to the vegetable garden, and enjoying a three-mile walk with Sophia, I’ve been pondering life, this appearance of duality that is physically dubious and yet remarkably, manifests shamelessly as the material world. It is the veritable impossible dream. I’ve been thinking about how life hooks us into believing in it, how it reels us in with its drama, how it creates the illusion of something to fight for, something to fight against, and how if we don’t buy into…
Juniper Bar & Grille at Sedona Golf Resort set to host event to support survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault SEDONA, Ariz. — Verde Valley Sanctuary (VVS) is excited to announce its newest fundraising event this fall, our 2025 Casino Night. Set for 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1, at Sedona Golf Resort’s Juniper Bar & Grille, 35 Ridge Trail Drive, participants will get an opportunity to play live casino games like blackjack, poker, craps and roulette. Other fun games include a Glow in the Dark Putting Contest for a prize, and the opportunity to win $300 cash…
Sedona, Az — The Jewish Community of Sedona and the Verde Valley, located at 100 Meadowlark Drive off Route 179 in Sedona, is a welcoming, egalitarian, inclusive congregation dedicated to building a link from the past to the future by providing religious, educational, social and cultural experiences. The JCSVV offers soul-enriching services, programs, and classes, all listed on the synagogue website, jcsvv.org. Office telephone: 928 204-1286. Visitors are welcome to attend services after a security check. Those who cannot attend in person can access the service through zoom. Rabbi Magal will lead Friday evening services on September 12 at 5:30 pm. The service will…
Camp Verde, AZ – Join us in the Terracotta Room at 1:00 pm on Monday, September 15th for a rare chance to hear stories from a Holocaust survivor. Hear award winning author Dirk van Leenen’s captivating life story of growing up in World War II, the invasion of Holland, and how history is repeating itself. He re-lives his father’s involvement in the “resistance”, how Dirk was a decoy, and the great escape from the last train to the concentration camp. Van Leenen’s parents hid more than 1000 Jews under the floorboards of their home in Holland. They would be transported to…
An authentic portrait of female resilience inspired by the women and girls who live it Sedona, AZ — The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Sedona premiere of “East of Wall” showing Sept. 12-18 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “East of Wall” is an authentic portrait of female resilience in the ”New West” inspired and played by the women and girls who live it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwGEF8B6Bcw Set in the Badlands of South Dakota, Tabatha, a young, rebellious rancher, who rescues and resells horses, must make hard decisions to deal with her fractured family, financial uncertainty of losing…
Sentience: Ask the Scientific Method, If AI has Exceeded Human Intelligence By David Stephen Sedona, AZ — There is a recent [September, 1, 2025] report on SciTechDaily, “AI Is Not Intelligent at All” – Expert Warns of Worldwide Threat to Human Dignity, stating that, “AI is not intelligent in any human sense at all. It is a triumph in engineering, not in cognitive behavior. It has no clue what it’s doing or why – there’s no thought process as a human would understand it, just pattern recognition stripped of embodiment, memory, empathy, or wisdom.” What is the proof that AI is…
Sedona, Az — The Sedona Sister Cities Association celebrated a historic milestone on August 30, 2025, with an official friendship signing ceremony between Sedona, Arizona and Jasło, Poland. Mayors Scott Jablow of Sedona and Adam Kostraub of Jasło signed official letters of intent via Zoom, formalizing the commitment to strengthen cultural and personal ties between the two cities. Supporters from both Sedona and Jasło attended the ceremony, joined by U.S. Consul in Poland, Colette Clark, who emphasized the importance of building bridges through personal relationships in today’s world. Adding to the celebration, the Verde Valley Wine Consortium was a featured…
VERDE VALLEY, Ariz. – Northern Arizona Healthcare (NAH) announced plans to centralize the cancer services it provides in the Verde Valley by constructing a new cancer center location on the Verde Valley Medical Center (VVMC) campus in Cottonwood. The project construction is expected to commence in late winter/early spring of 2026. The cancer center will produce 30,000 square feet of clinical care, and will incorporate all cancer services under one roof. The plan will involve closing Cancer Centers of Northern Arizona Healthcare in Sedona, in an effort to reduce travel times for many patients. NAH conducted a study of patients who…