A Voterfest march leaves Howard Hall at 5:30pm tonight for the early voting site in the Plemmons Student Union, and the last one of the week follows Tuesday in Blowing Rock. Later this week, Hitchcock goes to radio in Banner Elk and Brikhouse holds its first craft market.
5pm WASU $ Wizards live on WASU 90.5 with Corbin Hinckley, Hattie Adkins, Andrew Austin, and Ava Wilson.
5:30pm Voterfest March to the Polls from Howard Hall, about a mile around campus to the early voting site. A physical AppCard printed on or after Aug. 10, 2023 works as ID. The mobile one doesn't.
Tue 10am Three exhibits are open 10am to 6pm at the Turchin Center: Cut Food, Stitching the Natural World, and Community Contours.
Tue 4:30pm The last Voterfest march leaves the Blowing Rock parking deck, loops Memorial Park, and ends at the American Legion Building, an early voting site.
Tue 6pm The Board Identity, Boone's Tuesday game club, modern board games and small bites for adults.
Tue 7pm Araim x Alford Duo with Mev & Lockie at Huzzah Books, experimental music, $5.
Thu 7pm Figure Drawing Night at Huzzah Books, nude model, $10, 18+.
Thu 10pm House / Techno Night with DJ Elijah at Lily's Snack Bar, free, until 2am.
Fri 3pm Appalfest on Sanford Mall, from the Appalachian Popular Programming Society.
Fri 5pm Halloween Pickleball Paddle Battle at the Buckeye Recreation Center on Beech Mountain.
Fri 6pm Dancing Anyways: Halloween Edition at Parallel Brewing, with a costume contest.
Fri 7pm The Hitchcock Radio Hour at the Historic Banner Elk School, two tales of horror staged like a 1940s broadcast. Again Saturday.
Fri 7pm Blue Ridge Pro Rodeo at Blue Ridge Ranch. Again Saturday.
Fri 7:30pm Pressley Laton's album release at the Appalachian Theatre, the first listen to Wandering Kind.
Sat 2pm Brikhouse Fall Craft Market, the first one ever, local vendors until 6:30pm.
Sat 8pm The Smoaks at Shred Boone, which underwrites left917.
Sat 9:30pm Dr Bacon with My Gal Monday at Boone Saloon, $5, 21+.
Sun 7pm Dungeons & Dragons Night at Huzzah Books, one-off RPG sessions, 8 to 10 players, RSVP by email.
A contractor starts placing culvert sections on N.C. 184 near Banner Elk overnight tonight.
Boone Town Council holds a special meeting tonight at 5pm at 155 WYN Way.
Early voting in Watauga topped 2,700 ballots in the first two days, ahead of the 2022 pace. Sites run through Oct. 31, and our counter tracks all three counties.
Foscoe's property owners association reported a 1,285-gallon wastewater spill into the Watauga River.
The first snow of the season has fallen on the Blue Ridge Parkway and Mt. Mitchell. Wally the Woolly Worm, this year's festival champion, had already called for a cold, snowy start to winter.
App State professors Paul Worley and Melissa Birkhofer are working to get a 16th-century testimony from an Indigenous woman named Teresa Martín heard.
Fleetwood residents are fighting a closure of their post office.
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