The lower Verde River affected by the 2021 Backbone Fire has reopened to recreationists while other nearby areas – including Childs Camping area and Fossil Creek – remain closed. The Childs Dispersed Camping area will remain closed to river entry and exit, day use and camping. Visitors are, however, welcome to float the river past Childs. River users should plan to take out at Gap Creek or be prepared to go more than 40 river miles further to Sheep Bridge or Horseshoe Reservoir. The Fossil Creek corridor will remain closed due to potential post-fire hazards, including snags (dead trees), flash…
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Join Keep Sedona Beautiful on Wednesday, May 11, at 5:00 p.m. for its monthly Preserving the Wonder™ Speaker Series. This event will be held live at 360 Brewer Road in Sedona, and doors open at 4:30. It will not be simulcast on ZOOM. Please visit the KSB website, www.keepsedonabeautiful.org for details.Janeen Trevillyan, Sedona Heritage Museum President and Historian, and Keep Sedona Beautiful President Craig Swanson will speak about how KSB and the City of Sedona have evolved over the past half century.Fifty years ago, in 1972, Keep Sedona Beautiful was founded in a Sedona living room by people who were…
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, May 6, a Friday evening service, led by Rabbi Alicia Magal, begins at 5:30 pm both in person and on Zoom, and livestreamed for members and their invitees. Congregants participate by lighting candles, doing a reading, or having an Aliyah for the Torah service. Verses from Kedoshim (Leviticus19:1 – 20:27)…
… daily we walk trails, paths and streets and seldom give any notice to the tiny worlds that we pass by. Is there beauty around us? You bet, it is everywhere if you look for it … and the tiny little plants, flowers and bushes are the easiest of all to walk by because they do not have the striking appearance of say a large rose or other bloom. I went out early this morning to shoot some wildflowers down at Red Rock Crossing … we hiked the same trail as a couple of years ago after I sold my…
The Mary D. Fisher Theatre is honored to be the home for the Met Live Opera programs for the 2021-2022 season, presented by the Sedona International Film Festival. The season will continue with Giacomo Puccini’s “Turandot” on Saturday, May 7. There will be one show at 10 a.m. — a live simulcast as it is happening at the Met! Plan to come early as Deborah Raymond will lead a pre-opera talk one hour before the production. Ukrainian soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska plays Puccini’s icy princess. Tenor Yonghoon Lee is the bold prince determined to win Turandot’s love, alongside soprano Ermonela Jaho…
If you have a piece of wood and a wood carving knife, come to Monday at the Museum at Sedona Heritage Museum on May 9, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and join the Verde Valley Woodcarvers. Hundreds of people have tried their hand at carving with this group since its founding in 1997 by Norm Knight. The group consists of carvers ranging from beginners to master carvers. Come by with your own equipment or just come to watch these artisans do relief carving, chip carving, and bark carving. There is no fee for this demonstration. This is an outdoor…
The city of Sedona and their contractor, Paul R. Peterson Construction, Inc., proudly announce the completion of the Posse Grounds Parking & Soldiers Pass Road Shared-Use Path Project. The project included the construction of a new parking lot at Posse Grounds Park that added 38 spaces of additional parking for park and trail users. In addition, an approximately one-mile-long shared-use pathway that runs from the new parking lot and along Soldiers Pass Road was constructed to offer locals and visitors alike safe walking and biking access along the road corridor and to nearby trails. After in-depth discussions with the Shadow…
On April 20, Keep Sedona Beautiful (KSB) presented its Annual Awards of Excellence. Having begun shortly after the organization’s incorporation in 1972, this was the 51st consecutive year that KSB has recognized businesses and individuals in the Verde Valley whose activities have contributed significantly to our communities. Layla’s Bakery-Café was presented an Award of Excellence for Sustainability by KSB Executive Vice-President Carla Williams. She noted that the bakery minimizes waste in several ways: their streamlined menu results in much less food waste, some leftover pastries become bread pudding and the remaining extra pastries are donated to staff working at the…
By Amaya Gayle GregoryYou know what you are afraid of, don’t you? You may not have seen it consciously but deep inside you know. It’s the reason your diaphragm tightens, leaving a band around your chest, your heart aches seemingly without reason and your mind bends towards escape. On some level, you know where this is going, and you can’t imagine going there. Naked vulnerability is unthinkable. Going there consciously, eyes wide open, heart exposed and still beating, is ludicrous, impossible. It is the antithesis of how you’ve lived life to this moment. Why, it would mean … letting all…