By Amaya Gayle Gregory I have zero control. I know you want me to say that’s just not true but what can I say, I cannot lie to make you feel better or to make myself feel better. I don’t work that way. Sometimes it would be nice if I could. Darn it all! It is what it is. I am what I am. I don’t even have control of my reactions. Reactions happen. They are sometimes startling in their ferociousness. Sophie, that beautiful pup, is teaching me so much, really driving it home. She is pushing every button that…
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Sedona News – Sedona Heritage Museum volunteers surprised Mercedes and Jim Page of Orlando, Florida as the 10,000th visitor to the museum for 2021 when they walked through the doors on Monday, December 20th. Traveling down the West Coast of the U.S., the couple was touring through Arizona on their way to spend Christmas with their son in Tucson. They decided to visit the museum because they both are very interested in history, including the early days in the Southwest. The milestone for the Museum was marked with photographs and Museum docents presented them a gift bag of Arizona wine…
By Ted Grussing Sedona News – … on a beautiful September morning I took off from Sedona and it was one of those quiet and otherworldly mornings when there is a calm that stretches out as far as one can see or think … it was a day to just point the nose up and keep going. I took this shot just east and a bit south of Flagstaff and I was at 12,000 feet and climbing. Do not remember how high I went that day, but it was likely in the range of 17,999 feet 🙂 I took this…
By Carson Ralston Sedona News – Join us on Thursday, December 23rd from 5:30-7:00 pm in Camp Verde Community Library’s Fireside Room for our new free Special Concert Series, a spin-off of Music in the Stacks round-robin style concerts that take have taken place at the library for nearly 5 years. Music in the Stacks Special Concert Series is a showcase of local and national musicians who entertain regularly in Northern Arizona. There will be one band or solo artist that plays for the duration of the concert with a different artist playing each month, on the 4th Thursday. December’s…
Sedona News – Hope, renewed intentions, the anticipation of new adventures and the desire to refresh your surroundings fills the start of a new year. Are you ready for 2022? Rowe Fine Art Gallery is! On January 7 from 4 to 7 p.m., the gallery presents New Art…A Great Start!, a special show to usher in the new year. Now that the gift-giving season has passed and the holiday decorations are safely stowed away, it’s the perfect time to refresh your surroundings with a new piece of art. Or perhaps you’ve recently purchased a second home and the turning of the…
Sedona News – The Sedona Heritage Museum will host “Throwback Thursdays-Pioneers at the Museum”, on Thursday, January 6, at 3:30 p.m. at the Museum. Visitors will enjoy a glimpse at parts of the Museum through encounters with costumed reenactors. These impersonators will breathe life into eight Sedona area pioneers and share a bit of that person’s life story and adventures in the Sedona of 70-120 years ago. Guests will rotate through the Museum buildings, delighting in parts of a “day-in-the life” of our early settlers and community-builders, and getting a peek at some of the hopes, dreams, and hardships in…
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…
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…