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Crawdad Festival splashes into town

After a brief disappearance, the Crawdad Festival is returning to Camp Verde this weekend. It’s just taking on a different form. Bill Lee had some experience with the...

Police say motive unclear on fire-bombing of hospital helicopter

COTTONWOOD -- The alleged helicopter fire bomber arrested for seriously damaging a medical aircraft at Verde Valley Medical Center last week told police investigators he lives in...

County to join VRBP for six months...again

CAMP VERDE - It's difficult to decide what County Supervisor Tom Thurman's recent vote to let Yavapai County join the Verde River Basin Partnership means.

Bennett explains ‘birther’ involvement

When the Cottonwood Chamber of Commerce booked Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett to speak at its luncheon May 22, it was expecting to get a prominent speaker with an engaging...

Ranch House Restaurant to open July 7

CAMP VERDE - It has been almost a year since the Ranch House Coalition and its business entity Beaver Creek Development closed escrow, officially purchasing the community's...

Sales tax report remains mixed for April

VERDE VALLEY - While the Arizona Department of Revenue sales tax report for April remains somewhat mixed throughout the Verde Valley, there are some encouraging indicators within...

Serious Interstate rollover on I-17

Camp Verde Fire crews were dispatched to a single vehicle roll over on Interstate-17 just after 5 a.m. Monday.

Wilma Jean Crivellone

Wilma Jean Crivellone May 5, 2012 Wilma Jean Crivellone, 85, of Camp Verde and Phoenix, died May 5. Born in Wallace, W.Va., she met and married Alphonse Crivellone after a 30-day...

Larry J. Kelley

Larry J. Kelley Jan. 22, 1941 — May 22, 2012 Larry J. Kelley, 71, of Cottonwood died May 22. He was born Jan. 22, 1941 in Champaign, Ill. He was an Army veteran. He is...

William Stacey Healy

William Stacey Healy Jan. 23, 1957 — May 16, 2012 William Stacey Healy, 55, of Cornville, died May 16. He was born Jan. 23, 1957, in Prescott. He is survived by his wife...

Carol Adamovitch

Carol Adamovitch Feb. 6, 1942 — May 20, 2012 Carol Adamovitch, 70, of Cottonwood, died May 20. She was born Feb. 6, 1942 in Brooklyn, N.Y., the daughter of John and Mary...

Davis: This will be last supervisor term

rlo G. “Chip” Davis, Yavapai County’s District 3 supervisor for the last 16 years, says this next term will be his last. Assuming Davis wins re-election —...

Helicopter arsonist is held on $500,000 bond

CAMP VERDE -- Richard Thomas Butts, Jr., 26, is in the Yavapai County Jail, held with a $500,000 bond.

Tavasci mosquitoes test positive for West Nile

The Yavapai County Community Health Services has issued an advisory regarding mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus. The county health department found the virus during its weekly...

Town votes to raise taxes

The Camp Verde Town Council voted 6-1 to raise the town’s sales tax rate from 2 percent to 3 percent at its May 16 meeting. The tax will still not apply to items such as...

MIA No More: A place to place the 'choicest flowers of spring-time'

Memorial Day was set-aside for a singular purpose -- to pay tribute to those who have given the "last full measure" of their lives in service to their country.

Verifications for medical marijuana zoning confirmed

VERDE VALLEY -- Friday marked the deadline for 10-day application period for people to seek approval to operate a medical marijuana dispensary. The State Health Department, which...

Camp Verde resident wants tax increase put to a vote

CAMP VERDE - A Camp Verde resident has fired a shot over the bow of the Town Council this week after the council voted to increase the municipal sales tax by 1 percent.

Cottonwood Fire Chief Casson retires after 17 years with city

When Mike Casson joined the Cottonwood Fire Department as chief 17 years ago, he was looking for change. After 20 years as a firefighter and chief officer throughout Maricopa...

Strict fire restrictions in place

With smoke filling the air as firefighters battle the raging Gladiator Fire, which had burned more than 14,000 acres as of press time, fire restrictions remain in place throughout...

Seniors approach the end of the road

The approaching end of a journey was celebrated May 17 in a special Thursday morning assembly at the Camp Verde Unified School District’s Multi-Use Complex. It was marked...

Local 'terrorist' bombs hospital helicopter

COTTONWOOD -- Early Friday morning, about 2:30 a.m., a young Cottonwood man was caught trying to fire bomb a medical helicopter at Verde Valley Medical Center.

300 prep to flip tassels

Nearly 300 Mingus Union High School seniors will mark their graduation with a ceremony at the MUHS football field Friday, May 25. The ceremony will take place at 7 p.m., with...

Hawaii provides verification on Obama birth

PHOENIX -- It looks like Arizonans who want to will get a chance to vote in November for Barack Obama.

Class of 2012 set to walk the walk

CAMP VERDE -- The Camp Verde School District is 100 years older than most of the members of this year's high school graduating class.

Camp Verde Library has a new director

CAMP VERDE - The Town of Camp Verde has a new library director.

Memorial Day ceremonies planned in Verde Valley

VERDE VALLEY - Memorial Weekend observances will begin Friday with the Cottonwood Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7400 placing crosses on all veterans' graves from Jerome to...

Forest Service orders Fossil Creek closed

The U.S. Forest Service announced Thursday morning that it will close off all access to Fossil Creek, effective at 8 a.m. today.

Artists Against Drunk Driving launches locally

COTTONWOOD - Artists Against Drunk Driving originally started in New Mexico. Now it is launching a statewide program of producing professional quality portraits of victims of...

Margie Beach named director of communications at Rainbow Acres

CAMP VERDE - Rainbow Acres, a not-for-profit, 27-acre ranch-style residential community for adults with developmental disabilities in Camp Verde, is pleased to announce the latest...

County supervisors debate 'budget philosophy'

PRESCOTT -- The Yavapai County Board of Supervisors spent about an hour Monday discussing what Supervisor Chip Davis called "budget philosophy."

Salt Mine Cellars brings Crawdad Festival back to Camp Verde

It has been five years since the Town of Camp Verde gave up its popular Crawdad Festival.

Memorial Day 2012 in Yavapai County AZ - Memorial Day Parades, Events and more

Here is what is happening for Memorial Day 2012 in Yavapai County, AZ. Find the area Camp Verde events, parades, activities and more for Memorial Day 2012. Acitivites are in...

A Day to Remember in Camp Verde

For most of us, Memorial Day 2012 Camp Verde marks the beginning of a season of summer fun. But don’t let the real meaning of the holiday get lost amidst the barbecues and...

Archaeology Center to raise $250,000 for new facility

CAMP VERDE - From its inception, the Verde Valley Archaeology Center's primary focus was to keep the archaeological treasures unearthed in the Verde Valley, in the Verde...

Eighth year for 'It's Cool to Stay in School'

COTTONWOOD - Lydia Wischmeier is a sophomore at Sedona Red Rock High School. She is a straight-A student. This was her second high school year with perfect attendance.

Study finds Verde River water 'generally good'

CAMP VERDE - In the summer of 1919, voters in the City of Phoenix approved a $1.3 million bond to build a redwood pipeline to would carry water from the Verde River to their...

Cash in on a Verde River lunker

CAMP VERDE - After nearly 30 years trolling the depths of the Verde River , there are plenty of good fish stories from Camp Verde's Memorial Day Catfish Contest.

Gladiator Fire local staffing continues

CROWN KING -- There are now four Verde Valley engines from the plus crews working the Gladiator Fire, plus a Type-3 engine from Mayer. Most of the rigs are Type-6 brush trucks...

Lessons needed following brush fire

A small brush fire was quickly controlled in Rimrock Sunday.

Seatbelts save lives, again

A woman and three children were taken to Verde Valley Medical Center for observation after their vehicle had a blowout

County names Angie Hillman teach of the year

Teachers are a special group of professionals. They study just as long and hard as lawyers, engineers or businesspeople, yet they earn only a fraction of the pay after graduation....

Boys & Girls Clubs branch hosts summer camp

Call it engaging. Call it fun. Just don’t call the Boys & Girls Club Summer Camp in Cottonwood “day care.” “We’re a youth development organization,” Boys &...

Keeping the language alive

Language is often intimately tied to culture. However, nothing lasts forever, it seems. According to the research of some linguists, as many as 90 percent of the languages spoken...

Verde users keep an eye toward conservation

Water is life, and the Verde Valley owes much of what it is today to those settlers who took the Verde River and made it do their bidding.

March sales tax report mixed in Verde Valley

VERDE VALLEY - As it has been typical for many months during recent years, the Arizona Department of Revenue's sales tax report for March was mixed throughout the Verde...

What's the buzz in Beaver Creek?

Jim Rondeau, a local resident and bee swarm removal expert, assisted Montezuma Rimrock Fire and helped his community with the bee removal.

School board seats to be decided in 2012 election

VERDE VALLEY - Persons interested in running for local school boards in the Verde Valley and Sedona have until Aug. 8 to file paperwork and return signed petitions.

New maps refining valley floodplain

The Yavapai County Flood Control District is steadily working its way through a long list of revisions to its Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) flood insurance...

Conditions in place for severe wildfire season

"It's an early start for us," says Don Muise, deputy fire staff officer for the Coconino National Forest, "June is typically our critical month, but we are...