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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.
Thu, Oct. 29.
Boone BOO!
Move your car off King Street by 2pm Saturday. Anything still parked on the closed stretch of King or Depot Street can't move until it reopens around 7pm. Public lots: First Baptist, App State's Peacock Lot, the courthouse deck. Closures, parking and the schedule.
Voting
Watauga has cast 11,917 early in-person ballots through Wednesday. That's more than 1 in 4 registered voters, and over 90% of the county's entire 2022 early total with days still to go. The ASU Student Union alone has taken 3,655, 31% of the county total, with half from unaffiliated voters, 46% from Democrats and 3% from Republicans. Early voting ends Saturday at 3pm. Our early voting story has sites and hours.
Weather
Sunny today and Friday, then mild and cloudy for the weekend. Perfect spooky weather. Put the phone down and go outside now. The Haint List is full of ways to spend it.
The crew
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Today's picks
Poets, a loud night at Lily's, Friday's costume party, and how each High Country county is voting are in the orange button below.
◆ 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.
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🌖 Waning Gibbous · 92% lit
A bright moon tonight, so the Milky Way and the faintest stars wash out.
Sky's truly dark after 8:00 PM.
◆ NASA's photo today: The Mutual Occultation of Ganymede and Io →
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