This notice provided by the city of Sedona. Sedona AZ – The city of Sedona is seeking applicants for one seat on its Historic Preservation Commission. This voluntary body consists of five citizens appointed and established by City Council to promote and protect Sedona’s historic character and identity. As an extension of the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office, the Sedona Historic Preservation... 

This article submitted by the city of Sedona. Sedona AZ – In an effort to protect the welfare and safety of both the public and wildlife, on April 11, 2023, the Sedona city council passed a new wildlife feeding ordinance intended to provide guidelines and rules for the safe feeding of wildlife. Highlights of the ordinance include: • It is unlawful for any person to intentionally, knowingly... 

SedonaEye.com columnist Eddie S. Maddock reminds Sedona AZ politicians and voters that the USFS continues to protect sacred lands surrounding its city limits. The renamed “Cultural Park” was once part of reservation land, traded and then redesignated by Sedona politicians for “public use.” Developers and city politicians now want to bulldoze and build government subsidized housing... 

Arizona state capitol building in Phoenix Sedona AZ – The following announcement on short-term rental legislation is actively moving through the Arizona State Legislature: House Bill (HB) 2711, sponsored by Representative Brenda Barton, is scheduled for a hearing in the House Land, Agriculture and Rural Affairs (LARA) Committee Monday, Feb. 14, 2022, at 2 p.m. This bill will provide more authority... 

SedonaEye.com columnist Eddie S. Maddock on pandemic life and its inconvenient disorder. Sedona AZ – Beyond masks, affectionately referenced as facial diapers, generally lurks glaring and unfriendly eyes. But who, pray tell, can actually tell? Unlike death and taxes will this current pandemic last forever? For over a year now the global population has been in a perplexing state. Is this upsetting... 

SedonaEye.com columnist Eddie S. Maddock on today in Sedona. Sedona AZ (June 16, 2018) – At some point during our lives, Rah! Rah! Sis Boom Bah! is a cheer most of us are able to relate to. With Federal, State, County and City elections on the 2018 horizon, perhaps it’s time to break out the drum roll and resurrect the well known phrase to cheer for the candidates of our choice. We are... 

Financial columnist J. Rick Normand asks and answers tough questions about the City of Sedona decision to hire a private debt collection firm rather than train City staff to do the work in his Eye on Sedona column. Sedona AZ (July 30, 2013) – Is the City of Sedona permanently branding itself as business-unfriendly?  Who is RDS Discovery Systems? They market themselves as Sedona’s Partner!... 

Eddie S. Maddock, Sedona Eye columnist The Second in the Series, The Will of the People Be Damned, by Sedona Eye columnist Eddie S. Maddock looks at the incorporation of Sedona and subsequent efforts to manage its development.   The deciding election for whether or not Sedona was to incorporate occurred in the fall of 1987. When the final votes had been counted in early December, the decision... 

Sedona AZ (November 10, 2010) – The Sedona Times Publishing newspaper and SedonaTimes.com salutes Arizona’s and our nation’s veterans. Thank you for all that you did and do to safeguard our country and its freedoms. If you are in Phoenix, the annual Veterans Day Parade begins at 11:00 a.m. Visit www.phoenix.va.gov/news/parade.asp to find out the details. Arizona Veterans and Active... 

This is an answer that I posted in response to a Sedona Times reader, Emma Carpini, a good citizen who wrote expressing a concern that our newspaper was slanted in one direction. We hope that our reply to Ms. Carpini will address any other reader’s misconception of our 2010 election and candidate coverage. Our Sedona Times daily eBlasts are only a tip of the news coverage found on the Sedona...