
A New Look for the Big Park Council’s 25th Anniversary: Since incorporation in 1997, the Council has provided the Big Park Region, including the Village of Oak Creek, with a structured, representational organization to serve the community’s interests.

In ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus is the god who represents the first month of the new year. He holds the key to metaphorical doors or gateways between what was and what is to come — representing the transition from the old to the new.

A crowd gathered at the Sedona Vista Village in the heart of the Village of Oak Creek as Yavapai County District 3 Supervisor Donna Michaels and the Arizona Rangers commenced the first ceremonial tree lighting Friday.

National Fire Protection Association encourages homeowners to change their smoke detector batteries when adjusting their clocks to daylight savings time. With Arizona not observing the DST (with the exception of the Navajo Nation), that important task might escape us. And it might (or might not) cost us life.

The ball has dropped, and we welcome 2023 with hope and promise. As we all do in the New Year, the Library is beginning some new things. It’s also a great time to review what we have been offering to the Village and Big Park Community for over a year now.

After a beautiful and welcome winter storm, our garden is covered with a blanket of snow. Some call snow “a poor man’s mulch,” and in our arid landscape it is a blessing.

Keep Sedona Beautiful will hold its next Preserving the Wonder Speaker Series event on Wednesday, Jan. 11 at 5 p.m.

Sedona Village Partnership, together with its partners John and Nikki Ramagli and Jack and Camilla Ross, have organized a series of holiday events for the seasonal enjoyment of Big Park Villagers. All events will take place at John and Nikki Ramagli’s soon-to-be inaugurated Village Chophouse in the Collective, Village of Oak Creek.

Unfinished Business: Carolyn Fisher, on behalf of the Nominating Committee, introduced the 2023 nominees for president and vice president, Renald Stettler and Colleen Hinds, requesting each to say a few words about themselves. She then thanked Patty Reski and Mary Pope for agreeing to serve another term as treasurer and secretary respectively.

Bare soil starves for plants. That is why disturbed or bare soil invites weeds. Weeds! These unappreciated guests do the important work of restoring and nourishing the earth.
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- Multiple highway closures due to winter weather
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- Obituary: Jamee Marie Reddell
- UPDATE: Areas of Lake Montezuma evacuated as creek rises
- Locals in Verde Valley deal with flooding aftermath
- Cops seek suspects in theft of $1,800 in liquor