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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 →
Voting Nov. 3? Registration closes Fri, Oct. 9, at 5pm. Dates, early-voting sites, ID rules and a sample-ballot lookup, all on one page.
Tue, Oct. 6.
No Kings 4 is Sat, Oct. 17, 4–6pm. It starts with a rally at the Ag Center's Vote Early stage, then a Honk N Wave down King Street and a march to downtown Boone, with speakers and music along the way. Organizers call it nonpartisan and ask for lawful conduct, no weapons. Wear walking shoes, charge your horn, and plan on finding parking early.
Tonight at 6pm, the Foothills Conservancy film A Dream for the Future screens at BRAHM in Blowing Rock. The App Theatre's Hitchcocktober run continues with Shadow of a Doubt at 6pm. Over in Todd, the Down Home North Carolina teach-in at the Todd Mercantile walks through the amendments on the November ballot at 6pm, and at 6:30pm Boone Unitarian Universalist hosts the Ready to Vote community education night.
Worth knowing
New from us. How to vote in the High Country this fall. Registration closes Friday, Oct. 9, at 5pm, early voting opens Oct. 15, and Watauga and Avery sites close the next two weekends.
Today is the last day of App State's fall break. Classes resume tomorrow, and Homecoming week starts with them.
From 9pm tonight, maintenance on US-221 hits both directions between Deerfield Rd and Possum Hollow Rd, all lanes affected.
The Parkway's 75-mile, $100 million rehabilitation is finished, milepost 229.6 near Doughton Park to 305.1 near Grandfather Mountain, with fresh pavement, drainage, guardrails and overlooks in time for leaf season.
Watauga County commissioners meet tonight at 5:30pm at the county administration building in Boone. On the agenda, the proposed schedule for the 2027 countywide property reappraisal and an update on the county library. Town of Boone's Sustainability Committee meets tomorrow at 5:30pm at the Jones House, and the agenda is posted.
Town of Boone's Sustainability Committee meets tomorrow at 5:30pm at the Jones House, and the agenda is posted.
◆ 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 →
🌗 Last Quarter · 32% lit
Half-lit moon: planets and bright constellations show well, the dimmest stuff hides.
Sky's truly dark after 8:28 PM.
◆ NASA's photo today: A Complete Auroral Oval from SMILE →
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