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Running all October
The High Country Haint List. Haunted trails, ghost tours and a live Rocky Horror shadowcast. Everything spooky between here and Oct. 31, updated as the flyers go up. Read it →
Early voting runs through Sat, Oct. 31, 3pm. Watauga and Avery sites close the weekends of Oct. 17–18 and 24–25. Ashe stays open those Saturdays, 8am–3pm. Sites and hours.
Mon, Oct. 26.
Halloween week starts now. Trunk-or-treats, a haunted trail, a drag show, raves and Boone BOO! all land before Saturday night. The High Country Haint List has every one.
Dead Man's Bones, the Halloween band fronted by Ryan Gosling and Zach Shields, drops its first new music in 17 years Tuesday.
Leaves
Peak color finally landed. Ric Wilkinson shot it in three frames.
Voting
Early voting reopens today. 13,656 people have voted in person across Watauga, Ashe and Avery. Unaffiliated voters lead at 41%, but about 28% of registered Democrats in Watauga have voted, against about 17% of unaffiliated voters and 13% of Republicans. Full breakdown.
The five statewide races on every High Country ballot are in our guide.
Today's picks
182 events are on the calendar this week, and Halloween has a hand in a lot of them. Ghost tours, trunk-or-treats, a haunted trail, two raves, costume contests and a street full of trick-or-treaters, with something spooky nearly every day. We picked 22 for the orange button below, plus the N.C. 105 lane closure and Wednesday's Boone Town Council agenda.
◆ Book of the Week · with Huzzah Books
The Hanuman Collection; 47 Volumes, Missing No. 15
Various Authors; edited by Raymond Foye and Francis Clemente
A nearly complete collection of 46 volumes from Hanuman's influential poetry and art series published across seven years in Madras. The set includes work by poets and artists such as John Wieners, David Trinidad, Eileen Myles, Taylor Mead, and Francis Picabia.
Read the pick →
🌕 Full Moon · 100% lit
A bright moon tonight, so the Milky Way and the faintest stars wash out.
Sky's truly dark after 8:03 PM.
◆ NASA's photo today: M42: The Great Nebula in Orion →
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