Halloween night runs three stages and nine bands at Betsy's Barn, a $100 costume contest at Lily's, and Discoween at Boone Saloon.
All day Blowing Rock Halloween Festival at Memorial Park, free. Downtown trick-or-treating, hayrides, carnival games and the Monster March.
11am Spookley's Trick-or-Treat Tours at Apple Hill Farm in Banner Elk, every half hour until 2:30. $17 trick-or-treaters, $15 without candy, $3 infants. Book ahead.
11am Haunted Fairy Houses at The Pottery Lot, until 1, $45. Shape a haunted fairy house, then glaze it.
Noon The Great Parent to Parent Pumpkin Palooza at Leon Levine Hall, free, until 3. Costume march and contest, free food and pumpkins.
4pm Newland Treat Street in downtown Newland, until 8, trick-or-treating at the businesses.
5pm Banner Elk Trunk or Treat at the Historic Banner Elk School, until 7.
5:30pm Boo Bash in The Barn & Trunk or Treat at the Lansing Creeper Trail Park, until 7:30. All ages, no registration for the trunks.
7pm SouthEnd Costume Contest at SouthEnd Brewing.
7pm Betsy's Alien Abduction at Betsy's Barn. Three stages, nine bands and three DJs, with Ellie K, Peach Candy Nut Boys, Window Seat and Loose Roosters, and DirtyBitDJ and Sir Dezzie on the decks. Presale only, $20 plus $15 parking.
9pm Official Halloween Party with DJ Raheim at Lily's Snack Bar, $5, with a $100 cash prize for the costume contest.
9:30pm Discoween feat. Isaac Hadden w/ Uh. Erik at Boone Saloon, rock, $5, 21+.
It's 50 by 8pm and 48 by 10pm, so put a layer under the costume.
Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3, and polls are open 6:30am to 7:30pm at your assigned precinct. How to vote.
On-campus voting is an argument elsewhere this fall. In Guilford County, the board voted 4-1 in July for an early-voting plan with no sites at N.C. A&T or UNC Greensboro. Each had one in 2024, when they drew 6,487 and 6,800 early voters. The board says a new downtown site serves students, and Guilford had no campus sites in the 2022 midterm either.
Indivisible High Country's Donna Lisenby argues in her op-ed that the State Board's Republican majority has cut early-voting access. On the first day, more than 100 A&T and UNCG students marched about 45 minutes to the nearest site.
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