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Alyssa Smith

Alyssa Smith was born and raised in Maryland, earning her degree in Media Studies from the University of North Carolina Greensboro after a period of traveling out West. She spent her high school and early college years focusing on music journalism, interviewing, photographing and touring with bands and musicians. Her passion is analog photography and she loves photographing the scenes of Jerome, where she resides. Her love of the Southwest brought her to the reporter position at Larson Newspapers where she enjoys hiking with her dog along the Verde River and through the desert’s red rocks.

VVAC teaches ethnobotany

Rob Estrada, the Verde Valley Archaeology Center’s ethnobotanist, led visitors throughout the center’s Native American Heritage Pathway and Garden on Saturday, July 1.  Estrada and...

Clarkdale gazebo talks continue

The Clarkdale Town Council continued the ongoing discussion of the proposed reconstruction of the town bandstand and its status as a historic structure during...

CCFMD & VVFD consider joint management

The Copper Canyon Fire and Medical District Governing Board continued to discuss pursuing a joint management agreement with the Verde Valley Fire District during...

Clarkdale meets to cope with river drowning

The Clarkdale Police Department and Spectrum Healthcare held a community meeting on Wednesday, June 28, in response to the drowning of a Cottonwood woman...

Nancy Steele to retire from Friends of the Verde River

Nancy Steele, Ph.D., the executive director of Friends of the Verde River, will be retiring at the end of the year after spending six...

Zoll demonstrates solar calendar at solstice

The Verde Valley Archaeology Center, with help from the U.S. Forest Service, demonstrated the visual effects of the summer solstice on the solar calendar...

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