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State will address funding 383 new school safety positions next session
Sedona AZ – Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman made the following statement regarding the approval of the School Safety Program Grant awards today:
“It is an incredible step in the right direction to fund three hundred and eighty three new school safety positions across the state. From my conversations at schools and given the vast number of applications we were unable...
Yavapai County Supervisors and two State legislators discuss next session objectives
Sedona AZ – On December 9, 2019, the Yavapai County Board of Supervisors along with Craig Sullivan, Executive Director of the County Supervisors Association (CSA), met with Arizona Senate President Karen Fann and Arizona State Representative Steve Pierce to discuss Yavapai County’s objectives for the upcoming legislative session.
Topics included:
County Budget priorities
Arizona Department...
Sedona Republicans receive overwhelming support from community
On a city of Sedona main thoroughfare, locals and passerbys honking car horns and waving in support of President Trump and other Arizona Republican candidates made it sound like “a St. Patrick’s Day parade” said participants and onlookers.
Sedona AZ – Sedona Republican Party Precinct Chairman, Ann Kelley, reported that the reception for the Republican SR 89A rally on Friday,...
CCSO Issues Search Warrants for Williams Area Burglaries
Sedona AZ – On December 6, 2019, Coconino County Sheriff’s Office detectives executed two search warrants in the Williams District of Coconino County and the city of Williams, Arizona. These search warrants stemmed from several burglaries reported in the Red Lake and Valle neighborhoods, north of Williams, between May and November of 2019. During the investigation, CCSO detectives were able to...
ADE Superintendent Hoffman hires two for her executive team
AZ Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman
Sedona AZ – Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman today announced two appointments to her executive team at the Arizona Department of Education (ADE).
Claudio Coria, who will serve as Chief of Staff at ADE, has most recently held the position of Executive Director for Leadership at the Phoenix Union High School District (PUHSD)...
Iraq and U.S. Firefighters and Emergency Responders explore similarities and differences with State Department exchange program
Seven fire department leaders from throughout the Republic of Iraq visited Arizona (pictured above), DC, Michigan, and New York fire departments to collaborate with fellow firefighters.
Sedona AZ – On December 3, 2019, a group of seven firefighters from different fire departments throughout the Republic of Iraq met with Emergency Responders from the Prescott Fire Department, Central Arizona Fire...
Red Cross Opens Warming Center in Prescott Valley
Sedona AZ – The Northern Arizona Chapter of the American Red Cross has mobilized staff and volunteers to open a Warming Center at the request of the Yavapai County Office of Emergency Management.
The Warming Center has been opened as a result of multiple power outages in the area and will remain open as long as there is a need in the community.
The Warming Center is a place that people can go...
Blue Ridge man sentenced to 25 years for murder
Sedona AZ – On November 26, 2019, Patrick D. Nagel, a 63-year-old Happy Jack, Arizona man pled guilty to Second Degree Murder and was sentenced to 25 years in the Arizona Department of Corrections, Coconino County Superior Court, Division One.
Read the original SedonaEye.com article here: On April 2, 2019, Coconino County Sheriff’s Office detectives identified the partially decomposed...
Our Founding Fathers foresaw the potential tyranny of the popular vote
SedonaEye.com J. Rick Normand, Investigative and Financial Columnist
Sedona AZ – I grew up on the north side of Lincoln Drive at about 40th Street in Phoenix and, just on the south side of Lincoln Drive at the same longitude, was Senator Barry Goldwater’s house. My sister in the mid-1970s was, and still is to this day, a corporate ranch manager who then managed Senator Goldwater’s horses....
BLM approves land sale to Gila River Indian Community
Sedona AZ – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Trump administration has published a decision record approving the noncompetitive sale of two public land parcels totaling 3,380.69 acres to the Gila River Indian Community (Community). The Community, composed of members of the Pima Tribe and the Maricopa Tribe, has historical ties to these lands and the parcels include cultural resources...