By Karen Osburn, Assistant City ManagerSedona AZ (March 28, 2017) – Spring is here, summer is not far away, and Arizona is preparing for a challenging fire season because of a winter with very little rain.State and national fire experts say winds, prolonged drought and high temperatures have combined to make Arizona’s forests and desert areas extremely dry this year. Long term drought, changing fuel conditions and the resulting unpredictable fire behavior, combined with increased human activity, suggest that 2018 has the potential to be a busy fire year. Most of us are aware that it only takes one spark…
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By Dr. Marta Adelsman Life Coach in Communication and Consciousness www.DrMartaCoach.com (March 28, 2018)Imagine yourself participating in a normal conversation with the exception that you and your conversation partner both speak at the same time. In one of my workshops, I lead participants through a brief exercise in which they pair up, and for 30 seconds, they speak at the same time about their morning routine. At the end of the exercise, no one can report hearing more than a word or two of what their partner said.In conversations, our mind-noise has the same effect as if we were speaking…
By Ted Grussing… not an uncommon thing and even down at Bubbling Ponds there are a few rules, but apparently they do not apply to all who visit the area. At the end of each dock that goes into the ponds there is a bucket of fish feed which the rangers scatter over the water periodically to feed and treat the fish in the ponds. They do not want the public to feed the fish though so they took big marker pens to the buckets proclaiming that you should not feed the fish. Maybe the grackles’ are a special class…
Women adventure film shorts featured in world-wide festival making Sedona stopSedona AZ (March 27, 2018) – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to join theaters around the world for a special one-night only premiere of “No Man’s Land Film Festival” on Thursday, April 5 at 4 and 7 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre.Kicking off their third year of operations, “No Man’s Land Film Festival” is breaking down national and international borders with their 2018 tour — aimed to become an international voice for women in adventure.
Sedona AZ (March 27, 2018) – A unique instrument, a passionate musician and live streaming concert at the Hub on Friday April 13th at 7pm. In this intimate setting, experience the allure of The Chapman Stick, played by Sedona musician Michael Kollwitz.
Cottonwood AZ (March 26, 2018) – Verde Valley Fire District (VVFD) responded to a two vehicle accident on March 26, 2018 at approximately 8:45am. The accident occurred on SR 260 between E. Godard and Reo Mesa. There was one occupant in each vehicle and both refused to be transported to the hospital.
By Ted Grussing… I turned my alarm off at 5AM Sunday morning and fortunately awoke at 6:09AM which allowed me to get up and ready before Eric and Jim picked me up at 6:30AM to go and shoot some Vermillion Fly Catchers which are among the most beautiful little birds I have seen … Arizona is near the northernmost regions of their range and Eric knew exactly where to find them.
Sedona AZ (March 26, 2018) – Sedona Fire District was dispatched to 36400 SR 89A near Page Springs Rd. at 16:05 Saturday afternoon. Upon arrival, our firefighters found a tour jeep that had been carrying six passengers plus the driver. The jeep had rolled over but came to rest in an upright position. A small brush and grass fire had been ignited as a result of the accident. All occupants were out of the vehicle. The driver had been removed from the vehicle by people at the accident scene. The driver was transported by helicopter to Flagstaff with serious injuries.…
By Jean Jenks, Sedona Resident (March 26, 2018)Sedona’s wastewater rates have been among the highest in Arizona. Still, the last four years saw annual rate increases of 4% that are legally due to end on June 30, 2018. But there’s a problem. The City is intending to raise WW rates illegally beginning July 1, 2018. Here’s some history of their process. The January 15, 2014 ACTION MINUTES state: “Council agreed by majority consensus to approve the financial plan recommendations for a 4% per year increase in rate-based revenues for FY 2014-15 through FY 2017-18.” The March 17, 2014, NOTICE OF INTENTION TO INCREASE WASTEWATER RATES OR RATE COMPONENTS, FEES…
Encore kicks off Spring Music Festival for Chamber Music Sedona at Fisher TheatreSedona AZ (March 26, 2018) – Chamber Music Sedona and the Sedona International Film Festival will join hands Wednesday, April 4 for a 4 pm encore screening of the Academy Award-nominated “Buena Vista Social Club”.This wonderful film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1999 and is making a return by popular demand in celebration of the Spring Music Festival presented by Chamber Music Sedona.
Myths, Magic and Mysteries through music and literature.Sedona AZ (March 26, 2018) – From the Sylphs to the Undines, from the Gnomes to Saint Francis of Assisi and from the beautiful Hebrew prayer of Avinu to Franz Liszt’s master piece “Benediction of God in Solitude”, Piano on the Rocks International Festival opens a path to the Divine.The festival will take place on April 13-15 in Sedona. Concert information is as follows: Friday 13, 5:00 p.m. at the Church of the Red Rocks. The Church of the Red Rocks is located at 54 Bowstring Drive in Sedona. Saturday, April 14 and Sunday April 15, both performances…
By Melanie LeeAuthor, “A Year In Sedona~Meeting The Muse At Wisdom’s Edge”(March 26, 2018)I’ve been invited to read a short piece in honor of my friend, the late poet Elizabeth Oakes. There’s going to be a tribute to her this Friday, March 30 at 5 p.m.at the Sedona Public Library as part of the Pumphouse Poetry and Prose Project organized by Gary Every, Pumphouse founder, writer, poet, and all around bon vivant. He’s putting together what promises to be a remarkable gathering of creative souls, musicians, writers, and poets on hand, all there to honor a much loved woman who was…
Sedona, AZ (March 24, 2018) It was simply amazing watching the youth of America on TV wake up during their million strong march in Washington D.C. There they were, our youth, across the country, standing shoulder-to-shoulder in solidarity, demonstrating their unified resistance to the scourge of gun violence in the schools they attend. Finally, finally the youth of our nation have a common cause; a unifying vision that gives them a reason to band together and demand change. I’m talking about today’s “March For Our Lives” national demonstration.As a Baby Boomer, in my youth, we had a common cause, a common threat that unified…
By Ted Grussing… decided to do another one tonight … after my procedure in Flagstaff this morning, I headed over to Brandy’s for the magnificent Lattes that they make … only two shots of espresso, but it helped. I wanted to shoot the peaks from the ground so it was up to Snow Bowl and I took this shot from the drop off lot at the Chalet. Humphreys Peak is on the left and Agassiz on the right. In the photo I sent out last night, I was a few hundred feet (about a sixteenth of an inch in this photo) above…
By Jean Jenks, Sedona Resident(March 24, 2018)(In a Sedona Eye comment) Steve Segner says: March 20, 2018 at 4:30 pm — “Robert Smith I am hosting a meeting on home rule April 10 at 8:30at the Sedona rouge I’m going to have theCity manager come and talk about home rule and how it will affect the city and also about the upcoming $30 million traffic plan financed by the half cent sales tax”