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Sedona’s scenic Red Rock country is a magnet for tourists, attracting some 3 million visitors annually. The magnet is obvious. What visitors like most, according to the Sedona Chamber of Commerce, is “the natural beauty of the area.”
Some of the most spectacular Red Rock views that lie just south of Sedona proper, in the neighboring Village of Oak Creek, are coming under pressure from the state’s largest utility company, Arizona Public Service, in the form of an unwelcome new powerline.
APS has proposed building a 10 to 15 mile above-ground 69kV powerline from nearby McGuireville into Oak Creek. APS says this will provide resiliency, important backup during power outages and an additional source of future power demand. They favor a route of 65-foot steel monopoles, laced with three or more high-voltage lines, spaced roughly 88 yards apart.
Body found in rural Arizona identified as missing California man
By Associated Press
Shane Rollman (FBI)
PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) - The Yavapai County Sheriff s Office says human remains found in a dry creekbed near Interstate 17 on New Year’s Day are those of a missing California man.
The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office on Friday said the county medical examiner identified the remains as those of 31-year-old Shane Rollman. His car had been found abandoned about two miles away at the McGuireville rest stop in Rimrock on Sept. 23.
An extensive search of the area at the time had found no sign of Rollman.
RIMROCK, Ariz. Human remains have been found north of Rimrock in north-central Arizona and Yavapai County Sheriff s officials said Tuesday that they are trying to determine if it s a…