Sedona AZ (August 30, 2014) – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor: August 30, 2014 Representative John Kavanagh House of Representatives 1700 W. Washington Room 114 Phoenix, AZ 85007 Subject: Is ADOT putting the taxpayer at risk? Dear Mr. John Kavanagh, Per your request and my inquiry, I am sending you a partial list of the outright irresponsible actions on the part of ADOT... 

Sedona AZ (August 13, 2014) – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor from the Keep Sedona Beautiful organization: Editor: Sedona’s Designation as International Dark-Sky Community Raised Bar for Other Communities Seeking the Designation. Keep Sedona Beautiful is very excited that Sedona has been named the 6th International Dark-Sky Community in the US and the 8th in the world!... 

Sedona AZ (August 4, 2014) – The City of Sedona and the environmental organization Keep Sedona Beautiful (KSB) are proud to announce that the City of Sedona has been named the world’s eighth International Dark Sky Community by the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA). The Dark Skies movement started with professional and amateur astronomers alarmed that nocturnal skyglow from urban areas... 

Sedona AZ (June 6, 2014) – Keep Sedona Beautiful’s Speaker Series ends its 2013-2014 season Wednesday, June 11, 2014, at 5:30 p.m. with a program featuring Nicole Branton, Red Rock District Ranger of the Coconino National Forest. Branton’s talk will focus on the State of the Red Rock District, the Slide Fire and her impressions of the issues we are facing together. The evening includes donated... 

Mama American Coot                  Photo by Sam Hough 2014 Sedona AZ (April 29, 2014) – The Sedona Wetlands Preserve is a 27-acre marshland utilizing the Sedona Waste Water Reclamation Plant’s treated effluent. The local Keep Sedona Beautiful organization believes that the reclamation plant is a successful birding hotspot, and an example of ecotourism for Sedona and the Verde Valley. Hundreds... 

Sedona AZ (June 10, 2013) – In the past 60 days, trash filled Adopt-A-Highway blue bags for the following groups are being spotted. Thank you Knights of Columbus Council 2493 and Immaculate Conception Parish for an outstanding Arizona litter clean up effort with NO THANKS to the litterers. The virtual town of Folksville USA recognizes the groups below as the best Adopt-A-Highway coordinated effort... 

Arizona highway blue bags are filled by anti litter volunteers Sedona AZ (May 14, 2013) – In a Letter to Folksville USA Point Man Gary Chamberlain and the SedonaEye.com, Keep Sedona Beautiful litter lifter volunteer and Sedona resident Lynn Terry shares his background and an observation that present attitudes toward civic responsibility contribute to local, regional and national litter problems: Gary: I’ve... 

  SedonaEye.com columnist, Eddie S. Maddock, questions the decision-making process to spend on wish lists and not address the “broken” in the city Sedona AZ (April 22, 2013) – A curious idiom it is: “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.” As are many things, determination of whether something is “broke” or not is subjective. In the case of Sedona and the ongoing tug of... 

Arizona highway trash Sedona AZ (November 6, 2012) – In a Letter to the SedonaEye.com editor, a Cornville Arizona taxpayer reminds the Arizona Department of Transportation that mowing Arizona highways to help its litter clean-up volunteers is a responsibility and not an option: Dear Don, There will be many litter clean up volunteers out on the highway the Saturday before, the Saturday after,... 

Sedona AZ (February 29, 2012) – Village of Oak Creek residents Richard and Eloise Baldauf joined Friends of the Forest (FOF) soon after retiring and relocating to Sedona Arizona from Milwaukee Wisconsin in 2008. Milwaukee had been home for thirty five of the Baldauf’s now thirty seven year marriage, and Friends of the Forest was to be the first of many Sedona civic and community...