COTTONWOOD, AZ — Northern Arizona Climate Change Alliance (NAZCCA) is joining with the Sierra Club to sponsor “Power in Transition: Navigating Local Energy Resilience in Arizona,” with Erin Mahan and Stephen Cook at 12:00 pm on September 6, 2025 at Cottonwood Library, 100 S. 6th Street in Cottonwood, AZ. Erin Mahan is Vice President of Membership and Regulatory Affairs at SunSpec Alliance and a Board member of NAZCCA. Mehan will provide an informational overview of financial incentives currently available, focusing on EVs, heat pumps, solar, and induction stoves. She will address the future of distributed energy, using the examples of…
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Sedona, AZ — Unify Sedona invites you to our annual Picnic in the Park — a free, fun-filled day for families, friends, and the entire community! Date: Sunday, September 28, 2025 Time: 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM Location: Posse Ground Park, The Pavilion, 525 Posse Ground Rd, Sedona, AZ 86336 Bring your chairs, picnic baskets, lawn games, and blankets — and get ready for a day of laughter, connection, and celebration. We’ll provide soft drinks, water, yard games, and plenty of positive vibes! Enjoy: Fun & games for all ages Community bonding A chance to make new friends and deepen…
Fifty years after Vietnam, America is again clinging to illusion, burying failure, and courting collapse — this time from within. By Bear Howard. — Sedona, AZ — Two hundred days into Donald Trump’s second presidency, America feels eerily familiar — like a nation marching confidently toward disaster while insisting everything is under control. Federal agencies have been gutted, truth fractured into shards of grievance, allies abandoned, and the Constitution bent into the shape of one man’s will. The country insists it is “winning” even as the ground beneath it gives way. To listen to narrative click below: We have been…
By Joseph Rittenhouse The knives are out, thirsty for the future of Sedona Mayor Scott Jablow, who stands ready to be hung for the mortal sin he allegedly committed by not following the rules—by talking directly to staff rather than through the city council concerning the erection of state-of-the-art automated license plate readers throughout Sedona. People are already calling for his resignation while a local newspaper prepares to fillet his political career over the alleged infractions and accusations that the mayor is somewhat power-mad and guilty of harassing staff department directors and heads. Under Title 2 of the Sedona City…
Situated in the heart of the Verde Valley wine region, the fair offers the perfect pairing of fine art and wine. COTTONWOOD, Ariz. – The Arizona Wine Country Artists Village is excited to present its next art and fine-craft fair, taking place over the weekend of October 10-12, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Organized and promoted by Jerome-based artists John and Lauri Maeder (doing business as PBSW Events, LLC) and hosted by the City of Cottonwood, the fair will showcase the best state and regional artists, fine-crafters and…
Film Festival theatres join cinemas around the world for global theatrical event Sedona, AZ — The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to join theaters around the world for a global theatrical event: “David Gilmour Live at the Circus Maximus, Rome” on Wednesday and Sunday, Sept. 17 and 21 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4WNKsUzlBs The forthcoming film of David Gilmour’s 2024 return to Rome’s historic Circus Maximus as part of the Luck and Strange tour, his first in nearly a decade, was directed by long-time Gilmour collaborator Gavin Elder. The sublime spectacle, filmed against the backdrop of the…
Sedona, AZ — On Friday, September 13, representatives from the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) will explain how the Department implements the Safe Drinking Water Act. They will outline Arizona’s key water quality programs and highlight how each program addresses emerging contaminants with a particular focus on PFAS, the “forever chemicals.” The speakers will also discuss the testing of domestic family wells and provide status updates on our local lakes, creeks, municipal wells, and the recent underground storage tank leaks, followed by audience Q & A. Please join us for this important presentation. This will be a hybrid meeting:…
By Amaya Gayle — Sedona, a?Z –I can pretty much guarantee that few will be interested in this little secret, because it is the rather large lie, the frustrating fallacy, the charlatan concept that is ardently guarded by riveting, nearly unconscious resistance. I used to encounter that same thing when I’d write about death. That little idea doesn’t seem to be nearly as repulsive these days. Maybe we’re more accepting of the inevitable, but I also think there was so little interest in death because I hadn’t experienced its deceit directly, and regardless of what most think, that limitation, its…
Sedona, AZ –0 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 5, at 7:00 pm, the later…
Sedona, AZ — Keep Sedona Beautiful will resume the Preserving the Wonder Speaker Series on Wednesday, September 17 at 5:00 pm with a Native Plant Workshop program. This month’s speaker is Master Gardener Graelyn Deslauriers. Her topic will be “Attracting Backyard Birds with Fire-Wise Native Plants.” Please visit the KSB website, www.keepsedonabeautiful.org for details. Graelyn will discuss ways we can landscape with native plants that will bring beauty to our landscapes while at the same time providing fire protection to the home and landscape, AND attracting birds. Prior to the program, attendees are encouraged to walk through KSB’s newly completed fire-wise…
By DavdS There is a new [August 29, 2025] report in The Washington Post, RFK Jr. links SSRIs and mass shootings. What does science say?, stating that, “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested that psychiatric drugs may have played a role in the Minnesota Catholic school shooting — a statement widely criticized as unsupported by science. SSRIs, or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, a class of medications widely used to treat depression, anxiety, and other mental health disorders, have been repeatedly criticized by Kennedy, who alleges they pose serious health risks. In his “Make America Healthy Again” report, he cites them as a contributing…
Sedona, AZ — To kick-off the 2025-2026 season, The Sedona Women (TSW) celebrate 25 years of Making a Difference on Thursday, September 11, 2025, at Community Library Sedona, where TSW programs are scheduled monthly every second Thursday from September through May from 9:30 a.m. to noon. To recognize this milestone of two- and- a- half decades of friendship and service to the community, and making a difference in the lives of women of the Verde Valley, the City of Sedona has proclaimed September 11, 2025, “The Sedona Women 25th Anniversary Celebration Day.” Making a Difference goes to the core of…
By Tommy Acosta — Sedona, AZ — Accusations will fly. Fingers will be pointed. Emails will be written. Complaints will be filed. Welcome to another normal day in Sedona, the gripe capital of the world. One thing that is a constant in our sleepy little town: we can always count on some community altercation or verbal fisticuffs over one issue or another. Now we have the imposition and installation of automatic license plate readers all over Sedona that were acquired by the Sedona Police Department, after approval by staff, and erected by the city without community input or council discussion…
VERDE VALLEY, Ariz. – Northern Arizona Healthcare (NAH) announced that Larry Smith, PA-C, has joined the Orthopedic and Spine Institute (OSI) in Cottonwood at Verde Valley Medical Center (VVMC). Larry will be collaborating with Richard Holt, DO, a board-certified physical medicine and rehabilitation physician who specializes in comprehensive pain management; orthopedic and musculoskeletal disorders; movement and neurologic disorders; and intensive rehabilitation and recovery following many types of injuries and accidents. Larry will also be joining NAH OSI physicians, Brian Duggan, MD, and Adam Schneider, MD, as well as two physician assistants. “We are so pleased to welcome Larry to the OSI team at VVMC,”…
A group of seven women embark on a life-altering journey in Sedona Sedona, AZ — The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “Fortis Femina” showing Sept. 5-11 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “Fortis Femina” is inspired by real events and was filmed here in Sedona! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzVbql-qKyU A group of seven women embark on a life-altering journey in Sedona, Arizona. United by shared struggles and hidden truths, they undergo a powerful transformation. As the stunning desert backdrop mirrors their personal growth, the women forge unbreakable bonds and discover reservoirs of inner strength. This…