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We would all like to be able to help out the economy by shopping at small-town businesses, but we often think no shops around here have what we need.

Melissa Woods manages The Miner's Pick Rock Shop in Jerome. Her husband, Mike Caruso, collects and polishes the stone products and makes the wood furniture by hand.

A double rainbow graced the Mingus foothills Friday morning, giving significance to a mutual agreement over future annexations by Cottonwood and Clarkdale.

The Town Council will soon follow the lead of Cottonwood and Clarkdale's councils by raising the town's sales tax rate.

Jerome is Arizona's city on a hill. Cleopatra Hill, to be exact. The former mining town is a magical place where the historical and the avant-garde stand shoulder-to-shoulder, exuding a cheerful eccentricity.

Artist Awards were announced at the 5th Annual Sedona Plein Air Festival's Gala Event held in the Monet Ballroom at L'Auberge de Sedona on Friday evening, October 30, 2009.

Once known as the "Wickedest town in the West", Jerome was a copper mining camp, evolving from a few tents and shacks to a roaring mining community of mansions and quaint Victorian homes.

Video length 3 minutes Cottonwood, Clarkdale and Jerome all had special activities to usher in this year's Halloween for trick-or-treaters. Jerome had their first ever Parade Down Main Street, Clarkdale featured a costume contest in the park, and Cottonwood held their annual Trick or Treat on Main and Fall Carnival in Activity Park.

There are more than 30 wineries and vineyards in Arizona, spread out from Chino Valley in the north to Bowie in the southeast.

If you are not afraid of a little cold at higher elevations or pleasant weather at lower elevations, then this guide to winter hiking in Arizona will help you plan a great outdoor trip.

For more than 100 years, parking has been a problem in Jerome. When the mines were in operation, as many as 15,000 people called Jerome home.

Wednesday, the Camp Verde Town Council, and much of the public for that matter, will hear of a regional planning effort instigated by the Prescott National Forest known as the Verde Front.

The Clemenceau smelter today is a crumbling reminder of what once was. Courtesy Clarkdale Historical Society The problems associated with smelter emission in the Verde Valley did not begin until the United Verde Mine was forced to relocate its Jerome smelter to Clarkdale, after it was discovered the mine's richest ore lay beneath the Jerome ...

Mingus Union High School students and faculty will receive H1N1 flu vaccinations Nov.

Sedona, AZ: Experience an enchanting weekend in Sedona at the AAA-Four Diamond awarded Sedona Rouge Hotel and Spa.

Thanks to an increase in sales tax rates by the city council, Cottonwood is the only Verde Valley community to continue to show a jump in both retail sales tax and total sales tax from month to month.

Jerome residents wearing mandated facemasks during the pandemic. The town and eventually the Verde Valley were quarantined, a move credited with controlling the spread of the virus, though 60 people died.

Jerome Art Walk on November 7th is the perfect post-Halloween night. If you missed the legendary Halloween costume party in Jerome, just one week later, enjoy a more sedate but equally as entertaining night in this mile high town.

Jerome - "Largest ghost town in America" October 18, 8:56 AM Scranton Destinations Examiner Marianne Lombardo Old buildings in Jerome Wikipedia I realize not many people know about Jerome, Arizona, but it is certainly worthy of attention, especially at this time of year.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer appointed Prescott attorney Kenton Jones to the Yavapai County Superior Court on Friday.