Clarkdale AZ (August 17, 2021) – Three days before its state-of-the-art labs filled with students launching into “hero,” livable-wage careers, Yavapai College and community partners celebrated the completion and grand opening of the Verde Valley Skilled Trades Center.The Aug. 13 event at the YC Verde Valley Campus in Clarkdale featured celebratory remarks from college and civic leaders, tours of the 10,000 square-foot center and a luncheon. Capping the event was a ribbon-cutting captured for posterity by a drone.
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Sedona AZ (August 17, 2021) – Barring any major rainfall, between 7 p.m. – 6 a.m. the week of Aug. 23, 2021, crews will be out on State Route (SR) 89A for three consecutive nights to apply green paint in bike lanes at dedicated right turn lanes to help with bike safety. Small portions of the right travel lanes, right turning lanes and bike lanes will be temporarily closed one at a time while green pavement markings are applied. The left travel lanes will remain open.
Emerson Theater Collaborative Presents the i’Mpossible Project Sedona AZ (August 17, 2021) – In partnership with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), Verde Valley Mental Health Coalition and the I Am Worthy Project, Emerson Theater Collaborative presents The i’Mpossible Project: Kicking My Blue Genes in the Butt, written and performed by Joshua Rivedal. Show dates are September 23 and 24 at 7 p.m. and September 25 at 2 p.m. at Sedona Arts Academy at The Collective Sedona in the Village of Oak Creek. The 3-part i’Mpossible Project, produced by Camilla Ross, is a program aimed at middle, high school and college students that combines live theater with suicide prevention information.
Two-day festival among the red rocks to feature 28 Arizona wineries, live music, food trucks, a plein air painting demonstration, and artisan vendors Sedona AZ (August 16, 2021) – On September 25 – 26, 2021 the Sedona Winefest will be returning for its 12th annual celebration at the Sedona Posse Grounds Park (525 Posse Ground Rd., Sedona, Arizona 86336). The two-day wine festival will feature 28 Arizona wineries, music, food trucks, free chair massages, a Plein Air Painting demonstration on Saturday, the Sugar Thieves band live on Sunday and a variety of artisan vendors.“Wine, art and music lovers come from…
By Ted Grussing… we spent several hours on Lake Pleasant last Friday and it is a terrific place to hunt wildlife. Usually when I send the photos out you only see the closeups of the critters we hunt and shoot, so I want to share the overall beauty of our hunting grounds. In the foreground we are in shallow water in a little cove near the north central part of the lake. The cove is filled with dead trees coming up out of the water and likewise far up on the shore. Green pastures go back a mile or so…
Be prepared, stay alert for wet highways, possible flooding and debrisPhoenix AZ (August 16, 2021) – With the National Weather Service forecasting additional monsoon storms in Arizona this afternoon and especially tonight (Monday, Aug. 16), drivers should exercise extreme caution and consider ways to avoid severe conditions on the state’s highways and roads. That includes delaying travel until severe weather has passed.The National Weather Service has noted that wet ground conditions already exist from recent rain, allowing for more rapid flash flooding from new storms this week. With the ground heavily saturated, even small storms have added potential to produce…
On Saturday, August 14 more than 70 people attended an evening of music hosted by the Sedonya Conscious Living Center in Sedona featuring a visiting group of Tibetan Buddhist Monks, sharing their wisdom and spiritual teachings through music.During the presentation the monks played various instruments including drums, cymbals, horns and and bells and sang beautiful songs in their native tongue, interweaving harmonies and chants that enthralled and mesmerized the audience, heightening their spiritual experience and meditative experience.
Film that was a hit at the recent festival returns by popular demand to Fisher TheatreThe Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona theatrical premiere of “Sublet” showing Aug. 20-25 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre.
By Tommy Acosta (August 15, 2021)What a waste of money, human lives, limbs, time and effort. After 20 years of military conflict in Afghanistan, re-building cities, airports, infrastructure and an economy, the U.S. is pulling up stakes and leaving Afghanistan to the hands of the Taliban, our sworn arch enemy. Just like that!Without barely firing a shot, the Taliban declared victory and now waits for the “peaceful” handing over of power to them while the government we spent $2 trillion to create and protect disintegrates.Since the war began, a total of 2,448 servicemen were killed in the conflict, including 3,846…
By Alan E. Freedman(August 15, 2021)It is true that whatever we focus on becomes larger! Entertain a life of positive thoughts, speech, and emotions, including an attitude of forgiveness towards those who have done to us unspeakable and ongoing harm and distress and we attract more of the same. Miraculously, people continually come across our path that are uniquely instrumental in getting us from where we are currently, to where we passionately desire to go. New and exciting opportunities come our way, from out of nowhere. Resilient and unflappable in the face of difficulty is our moniker. Whatever health or…
Award-winning film starring Ben Platt, Lola Kirke and Yvette Nicole Brown returns to SedonaSedona AZ (August 14, 2021) – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona theatrical encore of “Broken Diamonds” showing Thursday, Aug. 26 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre.“Broken Diamonds” played to audience acclaim and was one of the highest rated films at the recent Sedona Film Festival and is returning for a one-night-only theatrical encore by popular demand.The film stars Tony Award-winner Ben Platt, Lola Kirke and Yvette Nicole Brown.
By Amaya Gayle Gregory Sedona News (August 13, 2021) At some point when you are quite lucky, you stop, stop believing your thoughts, stop trying to get somewhere, stop needing the world to make sense, stop hoping that people will wake up, stop wanting Earth to survive. It simply all stops. For some, it stops all of a sudden although that wasn’t the case for me. I experience it more like a traveling minstrel show, with new acts appearing with no warning. Most minds think it stops instantly once reality breaks open and shares its secrets, when you realize you have no…
Cottonwood AZ (August 13, 2021) – The Arizona Department of Transportation is advising motorists to plan for delays while overnight lane restrictions are in place on a two-mile stretch of State Route 89A between Clarkdale and Cottonwood starting on Sunday, Aug. 15.Drivers should slow down, proceed through the work zone with caution and watch for construction personnel and equipment while the following restrictions are in place daily from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. starting Sunday, Aug. 15, through the morning of Tuesday, Aug. 17:
Clarkdale AZ (August 13, 2021) – The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Yavapai College is pleased to announce face to face classes this fall at the Sedona Center and at the Verde Valley Campus in Clarkdale. OLLI is offering two six-week terms this fall: Fall Term 1 dates are September 7 – October 18 and Fall Term 2 dates are November 1 – December 17.
Camilla Ross presents Life is more vibrant when there is colorSedona AZ (August 13, 2021) – Camilla Ross is the Co-founder, Producer and Director of the Emerson Theater Collaborative; 2019 Collaborator of the Year, Arizona Community Foundation; adjunct professor; a business owner, veteran and resident of Sedona; and a passionate catalyst for social change. According to Ms. Ross, “Theater should always be a venue for social change. I love the art of live theater and love what it does to the human soul and spirit. It moves us to look at life differently. To leave off the rose colored glasses…