Sedona News – Old Town Center for the Arts has lined up renowned performers for its March Concert schedule. As we enter into Spring, March is the month to be amazed by colorful flowers and a colorful variety of performances at the Old Town Center for the Arts. Check out the notable group of performers below, who have toured the U.S. and abroad, and will travel to Old Town Cottonwood, this March for upcoming events at Old Town Center for the Arts. Andreas Kapsalis Internationally Known Guitarist Saturday, March 12, 7:00 PM Andreas Kapsalis is known as one of the…
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Sedona News – The Arizona Department of Transportation is preparing to start long-awaited improvements on State Route 89A in Oak Creek Canyon after the Arizona State Transportation Board awarded a construction contract to proceed with the project at its Feb. 18, meeting. The improvements include: Rockfall Mitigation Drainage & Sediment Control Pumphouse Wash Bridge Rehabilitation Construction is expected to begin early this spring and anticipated to be completed in fall 2023. ADOT invites you to attend a live virtual public information meeting at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 23, to learn more about the planned improvements and ask questions. More details on…
By Rose Boerner, NAMI Yavapai Sedona News – Our next Mental Health Monday program via Zoom on February 28th, 10:00 to 11:30 AM, will focus on providing information about safely navigating a mental health crisis, whether you have state Medicaid (AHCCCS) or private insurance. Topics addressed will be: How the local crisis phone line and crisis stabilization unit work and when to use them. What are your rights during a crisis and what happens when you call the crisis line. Alternative options to calling a crisis line. The three speakers will be: Monica Lincoln — Mobile Crisis Team Lead, Spectrum Healthcare Chris Knack MS,…
War Oh, what madness Infests some men’s brains A madness that kills That lusts to profane The sweet earth with the life blood That drains from the veins Of his servant the soldier On some foreign plain Who dies for his country But to whom it’s not plain Whether he dies for its freedom Or stock market gain. –Tommy Acosta How scary it must be to know you must fight to the death with another human when war calls upon one to do so. Mortal combat has existed since the beginning of conscious time, since the beginning when humans…
Camp Verde News – Starting February 28 and continuing every Monday from 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Teen Librarian, Zack Garcia will host Maker Mondays in the Teen Library computer lab. Teens ages 12 and up are invited to explore circuits, invent with gadgets, and learn tech skills through play. Develop important STEM skills while having fun. Recreate the now-famous Banana Piano with Makey-Makeys, or tinker and explore to invent something new. Synthesize and modulate sound and turn your creative ideas into reality with Little Bits, and much more. Camp Verde Community Library is located just off Montezuma Castle Highway at…
By Rabbi Alicia Magal Sedona News – Shalom and greetings from the Rabbi, Board of Directors, and congregation of the Jewish Community of Sedona and the Verde Valley. All the services, classes, and programs are listed on the synagogue website. Come join us either in person or online. See jcsvv.org for instructions to register for in-person services. On Friday, February 25, Rabbi Magal will lead a service to welcome in Shabbat with candle lighting, songs, prayers, and a Torah reading from the portion of the week, Vayakhel, Exodus 35:1 – 38:20, containing the plans and details of the building of the Mishkan, portable…
By Kathy Howe Sedona News: I live on a street in Uptown Sedona that has nine houses on it. Six are vacation rentals. I love it! No more barking dogs. No more urging a neighbor to have dead trees cut down. No more looking at a house where a hoarder lived and one of my cats hunted for food. No more listening to neighbors who lived across the street from each other and argued often. In the years the VRs have been operating in my neighborhood I have had only one incident which was quickly resolved by our fabulous Sedona…
Sedona News – On Sunday, April 3, 2022, Chamber Music Sedona will celebrate the conclusion of its first full concert season since the start of the pandemic with an exhilarating season finale concert, “Spectacular Sextets.” Featuring six stars of the chamber music world – violinists Arnaud Sussmann and Chad Hoopes, violists Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu and Matthew Lipman, and cellists Colin Carr and Nicholas Canellakis – the concert will showcase the sextets of musical rivals, Brahms and Tchaikovsky. “Spectacular Sextets” will take place at 3 p.m. at the Sedona Performing Arts Center. As the winner of a 2009 Avery Fisher Career…
By Carson Ralston Camp Verde News – Join us on Thursday, March 3rd from 5:30-7:00 pm in Camp Verde Community Library’s Fireside Room for an exciting performance from Wind & Strings, comprised of Woody Haiken on saxophone and Shelley Haiken on guitar and vocals. The duo has a unique style that is driven by Shelley and Woody’s profound emotional connection. Enjoy their rendition of tunes from the 60s, 70s, and 80s. You will hear many songs that one wouldn’t expect to hear on a saxophone! Since moving to Arizona 5 years ago after retiring from their respective careers, Shelley and…
Sedona News – Members of the Verde Valley Weavers and Spinners Guild will have their spinning wheels humming for “Monday at the Museum” at the Sedona Heritage Museum on February 28, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The spinners’ guild was formed over 35 years ago by Mary Pendleton of the Pendleton Weaving studio in Sedona along with a few weavers in the Verde Valley. The guild continues today with some 40 to 50 members actively pursuing Fiber Arts such as weaving, spinning, basket-making, dyeing and knitting. They would be happy to share their art with you, and to answer any questions…
Sedona News – The city opened new March and April appointments for Straight Talk with Karen, a program in which once a month, residents can come to City Hall and sit down with City Manager Karen Osburn to discuss any topic of their choice. The goal of the program is to facilitate an opportunity for residents to meet with Osburn on any question, concern, issue or general topic they would like to talk about. New to March and April’s Straight Talk with Karen is an open forum format instead of one-on-one appointments, so that up to five residents can sit…
… some difficult news this week regarding my favorite little raptor, Finley, an American Kestrel and a flying dynamo … all four ounces of him. He has a sarcoma on his right wing at the elbow. It cannot be surgically removed because there is not enough skin to close … that leaves a choice of euthanasia or a one shot radiation treatment which has a very high probability of success. The choice is life! The estimated cost of the radiation treatment is $5,500.00 and the maximum that insurance will cover is a fraction of that. Finley is four years old and…
Sedona News – 2015 Entertainer of the Year (Western Music Association) and 2015 Best Solo Western Musician (True West Magazine), DAVE STAMEY will perform at the Old Town Center for the Arts, Saturday, February 26th at 7:00 PM. Stamey has been a cowboy, a mule packer, a dude wrangler, and is now one of the most popular Western entertainers working today. He finds he prefers delighting audiences across the country more than being stomped on by angry horses. Drawing on his own experiences, Dave Stamey will perform songs and stories about living and working in the west. Dave’s music isn’t…
Sedona News – The Sedona Heritage Museum will be serving cake to visitors in honor of Sedona Schnebly’s 145th birthday on February 24th, from 11 a.m. until the cake is gone. Born in 1877 to an upper middle-class lifestyle, Sedona Arabella Miller followed her heart against her parents’ wishes when she married Theodore Carlton Schnebly at age 20. Four years later, he moved his wife and two small children to Arizona Territory and a place with no name. When he applied for a post office from their new home, he submitted his wife’s name as the name for the new…
Camp Verde News – After painting intimate landscape portraits of the world around her, a relationship with the landscape emerged. These paintings are from a small part of Camp Verde, the Salt Mine Road area. Local Camp Verde artist, Mary Rush, says that she saw the landscape around her home more in-depth with each painting she painted. The land revealed itself in all its intricacies and specialness. These paintings are about place and emerging from that place. A curated selection of paintings from the artist’s series titled, Emergence is now showing at the Camp Verde Community Library through the end of February.…