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City Manager Scotty Douglass quitting city of Cottonwood decapitates good leadership

Cottonwood residents should both be embarrassed and enraged by their current elected municipal council’s actions over the last two weeks. First, an internal investigation found...

Guest Perspective: Cottonwood deserves reasonable governance from its City Council

If you haven’t watched your Cottonwood City Council in a while, the Tuesday, Dec. 19 meeting is one worth watching. This watershed meeting illuminates...

Make a new year’s resolution to run for City Council

Lots of people make annual New Year’s resolu­tions starting on Jan. 1, such as saving money, doing more volunteering, losing weight, spending more time...

Cottonwood City Council must condemn Councilman Derek Palosaari for sexual misconduct against city staff and force him to resign

Cottonwood residents should be ashamed of four members of City Council after three of them — Lisa DuVernay, Stephen DeWillis and Michael Mathews —...

With the failure of the mayoral recall petition, Cottonwood can move on

The signatures for the potential Cottonwood recall election have been verified, and the petitioners have come up short by about 40 signatures fewer than...

With recall effort to oust Mayor Tim Elinski now dead, Cottonwood can move on

The signatures for the potential Cottonwood recall election have been verified, and the petitioners have come up short by about 40 signatures fewer than...

Voters have an interesting Cottonwood City Council split to settle

The Cottonwood City Council is at an impasse over selecting a seventh member to fill a vacant council seat. Normally, such a seat would...

Libraries exist for us all, not just squeaky wheels

There has been an unsettling trend at libraries in the Verde Valley as a small handful of residents have begun harassing or even threatening...

Larson Newspapers win 15 awards in Arizona Newspapers Association contest

Larson Newspapers, which publishes the Sedona Red Rock News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra, walked away with 15 awards at...

A newsroom raid in Kansas imperils all civil liberties

Marion, Kan., became the epicenter of an assault on our constitutional protections and the scene of an undemo­cratic power grab as well as a...

How to recall an elected official in Arizona

A reader recently called lamenting that civics education is no longer properly taught in schools as it was when she was a student some...

Motherhood is love made tangible in the flesh

Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 14, the day when we celebrate our mothers, grandmothers, wives and daughters with brunches or breakfasts, flowers or just...

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