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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 →
Missed the registration deadline? Early voting runs Oct. 15–31, and you can register and vote in the same trip at any site in your county. Bring proof of where you live. Sites and hours.
The Flood Watch holds until 8pm tonight. Check the details before you head anywhere, turn around at flooded roads, and keep an eye on Ray's Weather for closures.
Sun, Oct. 11.
The Flood Watch runs until 8pm tonight for Watauga and Ashe. Heavier rain keeps coming in short bursts, and the National Weather Service puts another 1 to 3 inches on top of what already fell overnight. Creeks can leave their banks, low-water crossings can flood, and storm drains can clog. A Flood Advisory runs until 11am. Turn around, don't drive through water. Keep an eye on the Watauga River reading in the weather strip up top, which tracks flow and stage near Sugar Grove.
Freedom Fest at Ashe Park, 12–4pm, is outdoors, so check before you go. The Spruce Pine Potters Market wraps up at 5pm. Reggae Lift Up Lunch at Fizz Ed runs 11am to 2pm. Sassafras plays bluegrass at Old Barn Winery, 2–5pm.
The Hispanic Heritage Month Concert is 4–5:30pm at Broyhill Music Center, and the App State Jazz Ensemble plays the Appalachian Theatre, 5–8pm. At 7pm, D&D night at Huzzah Books runs one-off campaigns.
Expect some cancellations with this much rain, so check with the host before you head out. Freedom Fest at Ashe Park, 12–4pm, is the outdoor one.
Saturday
Homecoming went to Old Dominion, 10-3, in the rain at Kidd Brewer. App State's only points were a 34-yard field goal in the third quarter, and ODU pulled ahead on a safety and a fourth-quarter touchdown run.
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◆ Book of the Week · with Huzzah Books
Jefferson and or Mussolini
Ezra Pound
Pound's 1933 case that Jefferson and Mussolini were running the same play with different names. Read as literature it's a mess, mostly worth it as a document: modernism's most famous poet putting his fascist sympathies on paper in his own words, years before the worst of it landed. Not a recommendation of the politics, a primary source on how a brilliant mind talked itself into them.
Read the pick →
🌑 New Moon · 1% lit
Near-new moon — the darkest skies of the month for the Milky Way and meteors.
Sky's truly dark after 8:21 PM.
◆ NASA's photo today: Ice Fishing for Cosmic Neutrinos →
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