Yavapai County Elections Director, Lynn Constabile, would like to announce that Special District candidate packets with official signature requirements are now available for download on our website: YavapaiAZ.gov/GoVote/forms. This packet is for candidates running in Fire Districts, Domestic Water Improvement Districts (DWID), Domestic Waste Water Improvement Districts (DWWID), Sanitary Districts, Road Improvement / Maintenance Districts, and Hospital Districts. A full list of Special Districts with positions up for election in the November 8, 2022 General Election can be found within the Special District Candidate Packet. Candidates may turn in their nomination petitions and paperwork between June 11th and July 11th…
Author: Sedona Best
The local kickoff event at the Sedona Performing Arts Center for this year’s Sedona International Film Festival (SIFF), “An Afternoon with Bruce Babbitt,” attracted a large, enthusiastic audience. Prior to hearing Secretary Babbitt speak, SIFF screened a new movie, “Red Rock State Park”, now showing to visitors at the park. Local filmmakers Bryan Reinhart, director, and Ron Melmon, producer, created this inspiring short documentary. Funding was made possible by the Benefactors of Red Rock State Park.The park owes its existence to Bruce Babbitt. He negotiated a way for the State of Arizona to procure the land and create what we…
As part of a new sustainability initiative, the city of Sedona encourages residents to apply for up to $5,000 in funding to make their homes more energy efficient and weatherized. Known as the Home Energy Retrofit Project and in partnership with CozyHome LLC, the project is intended to benefit moderate and low-income residents within Sedona city limits. Home weatherization and retrofitting services supported by this project include duct sealing, air sealing, insulation repair, lighting upgrades, mini-split installations and heat pump installations.How to applyProject information and applications can be found under Sustainability Projects at www.sedonaaz.gov/sustainability. This is an ongoing project, and…
… and it was simply another beautiful end of day in this amazing place that we call home … behind me the long shadows from Mingus Mountain were sweeping across the valley and soon the light was gone and the beauty hidden during the hours of night and rest … soon enough the sun rose and another day in paradise began. Save for the signs of a populated city this is how it has looked for thousands of years … and it will for thousands more. Change comes slowly here and we see the work of millions of years all…
Piano on the Rocks International Festival returns to Sedona on April 23-25, 2022 with three unique successive concerts and the world premiere of: Powehi for two pianos and narrator by American composer Anna Rubin. Piano on the Rocks continues its vibrant performances with three outstanding and eclectic concerts. It will feature three pianists: the world renowned French pianist Jean-Marc Luisada, considered as one of the most important interpreters of Frederic Chopin’s music in the world, winner of Dino Ciani Competition and the famous Warsaw Chopin Competition; American pianist Cynthia Raim, known to Sedona audiences from previous festivals, winner of the…
Health First Foundation is accepting scholarship applications from students and professionals pursuing or advancing a health career in northern Arizona. Scholarships up to $2,500 are available to undergraduate and postgraduate students working on degrees in nursing, clinical, non-clinical, allied, integrative, or behavioral health fields. For the first time, the foundation has a scholarship available to former U.S. military service members and one directed at studies in integrative health.Visit https://healthfirstforall.org/scholarships for details and to apply. Applications will be accepted March 1-25.Health First scholarships target the critical need for health professionals in northern Arizona and are funded by generous contributions from individual…
Up-and-coming winemakers will be celebrated on April 23 when the Emerging Winemakers Competition & Symposium returns for its fourth year at Yavapai College’s Verde Valley campus in Clarkdale. The event will run from 9:30 a.m. – 3:15 p.m. PDT and will be held in person at the college and streamed live online.Organized by Grand Crew, a Yavapai College Viticulture and Enology student/alumni organization, the event will feature educational seminars, an awards ceremony and a roundtable discussion with the competition’s seven judges.An “emerging” winemaker is anyone at least 21 years of age whose wine is not available commercially. Wine submissions are…
… everything happens at warp speed … the Osprey above has thrust up and forward with his legs, released his talons from the branch and has fully extended his wings as he lifts off and is reaching for air … perhaps a tenth of a second has elapsed from the decision to enter flight. In the photo below a Great Egret has also made the choice to enter flight and we have him looking like a helicopter going straight up from the shore he was wading looking for food and he is perhaps a half a second into flight. Work…
The Sedona Heritage Museum will host “Throwback Thursdays-Pioneers at the Museum”, on Thursday, March 3, 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 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 Arizona’s rustic Red Rock Country…