A bicyclist participating in the BikeMS race was killed Saturday, May 17, following a traffic accident on Cornville Road.
Just before 12:30 p.m. Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office deputies were dispatched to a traffic accident involving a vehicle and three bicyclists on Cornville Road west of Beaverhead Flat Road.
One of the bike riders, 48-year-old Ethelyn Hartline of Gilbert, was airlifted to Flagstaff Medical Center in critical condition and died just before 6 p.m.
For the full sotry, pick up a Wednesday, May 21, editon of any Lasron Newspaper: The Camp Verde Journal, Cottonwood Journal Extra or Sedona Red Rock News.
Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rocks News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been featured in Editor & Publisher magazine. He lectures on journalism and First Amendment law and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. Retired U.S. Army Col. John Mills, former director of Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy, and International Affairs referred to him as "Mr. Slam Poet." In January 2025, the International Astronomical Union formally named asteroid 29722 Chrisgraham (1999 AQ23) in his honor at the behest of Lowell Observatory, citing him as "an American journalist and longtime managing editor of Sedona Red Rock News. He is a nationally-recognized slam poet who has written and performed multiple poems about Pluto and other space themes."
