Sedona News: Come to Sound Bites Grill on Christmas Day and enjoy a languid meal and live holiday music. On December 25, Christmas Day, from 12 to 7 p.m., Sound Bites Grill puts on a scrumptious diner featuring David Vincent Mills on the piano and its regular menu locals and visitors have grown to love. There will also be Holiday Specials that include fresh fish, Surf & Turf, and much,, much mmore. Mills is a Sedona musical mainstay who keeps it mellow on the keys, playing the classics people still love today and he will play all day with only…
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By Ted Grussing Sedona News – … as peaceful as everything seems in the photo above, a lot is going on because he is searching the waters below him for food … a nice fish preferred. He eventually saw a school of small bait fish swimming close to shore. Once spotted, he dropped down to the shoreline, nabbed a good appetizer and flew back up to a perch to finish off his snack. It wasn’t much in the overall scheme of things for what he needs, but he takes what he can get … more to follow. The perfection of…
Verde Valley News, Sedona News – Verde Valley Fire District was recently awarded a grant for the FFY 2022 in the amount of $12,474 from the Arizona Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS) to continue their child car seat safety program. Thanks to GOHS, the District expects to provide approximately 210 child car seats to those in need in the community. The District’s car seat program provides car seats at no cost to low-income families. Trained car seat technicians install the seats and provide instruction to parents and caregivers about the proper installation. This instruction is also provided, free of…
Sedona News – The city of Sedona and their contractor, Standard Construction Company, will begin the State Route (SR) 179 Sewer Main Replacement Project: Phase 2 the first week of January 2022. The start date is contingent upon the issuance of permits through Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), which is currently in process. The project consists of the removal and replacement of approximately 365 feet of sewer main along SR179, from the stopping point of Phase 1 through the Schnebly Hill roundabout. In addition to this work, approximately 400 feet of sewer main will be upgraded under the pedestrian bridge…
By Tommy Acosta Sedona, AZ News: I’ll never forget that day; the day I lost my innocence and faith in humanity. I was seven years old and playing with my friend Butchie Hagen in his room. It was a week before Christmas, and I was so excited to know Santa was coming soon with all kinds of presents as he had every year of my life I could remember. Butchie looked like something was bothering him. He wasn’t the same happy self as he usually was. I asked him what was wrong, and he said, “There is no Santa Clause.” …
Sedona AZ (December 17, 2021) – – On December 31st, Sedonya Conscious Living Center will be hosting Bee Your Dreamzz 2022, a conscious intention event, to welcome in the New Year – with 50% of all proceeds going to save the bees. The all day event that takes place at Sedonya Conscious LIving Center in Sedona, starts at 5 am in the morning and is carefully designed for attendees to step into the New Year with conscious intention. The event features a variety of offerings for the entire family, and includes sound healing, dream catcher workshops, frequency healers and more.…
Sedona AZ (December 17, 2021) – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of the acclaimed new film “India Sweets and Spices” showing Dec. 26-30 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. Alia Kapur (Sophia Ali) returns to her family’s posh suburban New Jersey home after a year away at college and upends their well-ordered life with her newfound independence. Befriending Varun (Rish Shah), the handsome son of the new owners of the local Indian grocery, she invites his family to a weekly dinner gathering with her parents’ wealthy friends. She is shocked to learn…
By Amaya Gayle Gregory Life simply is what it is, is what it is to you, is what it is to me. There is no one answer that will ever suffice, no words that come nigh to spelling it out. And yet, in this mind-boggling mind-bending experiential we call life, we play the ‘let’s define it’ game with words … and feelings … and everything else at our disposal. It must be important because all of life is the playground. Nothing is excluded. Each idol, each preferred version of what this is and its concomitant set of game rules, is…
By Terry Hansen, Hales Corner WI (December 17, 2021) The American Society of Civil Engineers heralded President Biden’s Nov. 15 signing of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill as “a historic bipartisan achievement that represents the largest investment in our nation’s critical infrastructure in a generation or more.” The organization’s praise for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) is not surprising, as it estimated the U.S. infrastructure investment deficit to be $2.59 trillion over 10 years. According to the ASCE: “Poor roads and airports mean travel times increase. An aging electric grid and inadequate water distribution make utilities unreliable. Problems…
Sedona AZ (December 17, 2021) – The city of Sedona encourages residents to apply for the Budget Work Group to serve as a citizen sounding board throughout the upcoming annual budget process. More specifically, the group of up to nine volunteers will meet no more than four times in February on the following topics: First, city staff will give a high-level explanation of the budget, followed by facilitation of a meaningful discussion where city staff asks what changes to programs and services need to be made and what community issues with budget implications need to be addressed. Second, the work group will make recommendations on the additional major budget requests staff prepares for the coming year’s budget.…
By Ted Grussing … however much I enjoy shooting all creatures and especially those with wings I keep returning to raptors … birds of prey. These are a couple of shots I recently took of Leroy a Harris’s Hawk which is among the birds that Michele of International Raptors and Falconry flies. The top photograph was taken as Leroy was leaving his perch in a juniper tree and entering flight … the photo below is Leroy in action, flying low over the prairie in search of prey and rabbits are a favorite. It was a beautiful day in Flagstaff today, snow on…
Sedona AZ (December 16, 2021) – The Mary D. Fisher Theatre is proud to present the acclaimed new drama “The Lost Daughter” showing for a limited time: Dec. 26-30. “The Lost Daughter” is nominated for two Golden Globe Awards: Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama for Olivia Colman and Best Director for Maggie Gyllenhaal. The film is rated as one of the best films of 2021 by critics around the world and is Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut, based on the novel by Elena Ferrante. “The Lost Daugher” features an award-winning ensemble cast, including Olivia Coman, Jessie Buckley, Dakota Johnson, Ed…
Flagstaff AZ (December 16, 2021) – The National Park Service is seeking public input on the Draft Backcountry Management Plan and associated environmental assessment (EA) for Wupatki National Monument. The purpose of this Plan is to provide protection and preservation of irreplaceable resources and wilderness character, while establishing long-term direction for public access and experiences to be had in eligible wilderness and other backcountry lands of the Monument. The EA describes two alternatives: a no-action alternative and an action alternative — which has been identified as the NPS preferred alternative. The no-action alternative reflects a continuation of current management practices,…
By Ted Grussing … that tomorrow morning the peaks and Flagstaff area will be a winter wonderland and that the peaks and volcanic cones in the San Francisco Volcanic Field have coats of snow at least as much as these two photos. After snowfalls I always used to fly up there and spend an hour or so shooting them from every angle … once I had to go up through a blue hole and fly at 17,000′ to get above the clouds and make it up there and as promised by a friend there was a large blue hole up…
Sedona AZ (December 15, 2021) – The Coconino National Forest is releasing a Draft Environmental Assessment for the APS Oak Creek to McGuireville 69kV Power Line project and initiating a 30-day comment period beginning today. The APS Oak Creek to McGuireville 69kV Power Line project is a proposal for the authorization of a long-term special use permit to construct, operate, and maintain a 13.7 mile long 69kV power line between the existing Village of Oak Creek substation and the existing McGuireville substation. The purpose of this project is to connect the power grid in the Verde Valley region, which would…