A march, a duo, and Hocus Pocus

The last Voterfest march of the week loops Memorial Park in Blowing Rock at 4:30pm, then Hocus Pocus plays the Appalachian Theatre at 6. Experimental music closes the night at Huzzah.

Tonight

4:30pm Voterfest March to the Polls from the Blowing Rock parking deck, a half-mile loop around Memorial Park that ends at the American Legion Building, an early voting site.
6pm Hocus Pocus at the Appalachian Theatre. We love the original. The sequel is fine and has grown on us, but nothing beats the first one.
6pm The Board Identity, Boone's Tuesday game club, at Boone United Methodist. Modern board games and small bites for adults. Real games with real people, like we used to.
7pm Araim x Alford with Mev & Lockie at Huzzah Books, a touring experimental duo and a new local one, $5. Walking home late? Look southeast after midnight, the Orionids peak this week.

Worth knowing

A Fleetwood couple is running a letter-writing campaign to get answers from the Postal Service about the Fleetwood post office, closed since Helene. Lisa Nelson says in an open letter that less than 60 days of written comment remain on the USPS study, and a board then has 120 days to decide.

Watauga commissioners hold a public hearing tonight at 5:30pm in the community room at the Watauga Recreation Center on the proposed 2027 schedule of values for the county's property reappraisal. They could adopt the schedule at the Nov. 17 meeting.

The voter ID amendment would extend the photo ID requirement to every voter, including people who vote by mail. Until now it covered only in-person voters.

The income tax cap amendment would set a 3.5% ceiling on North Carolina's income tax rate. Our guide to what's on your ballot covers all three.