🛒 Blacksburg Farmers Market | Wednesday Market
2-6pm, Market Square Park, Blacksburg. The year-round, producer-only market with vendors from within 50 miles: seasonal produce, meats, baked goods, cheese, and handmade crafts.

🌿 Lunch and Learn: Appalachian Forest Botanicals
Noon-1pm, Blacksburg Library (Blacksburg Meeting Room), with Virginia Tech sociology professor Shannon Bell and Blacksburg Sustainability Manager Carol Davis. Learn about the history, culture, and traditions of Appalachian forest botanicals, and how Shadowlake Village is blending invasive species removal with the cultivation of these forest medicines and foods. Join in person or via Zoom.

🧵 Sewing Repair Cafe
3-4:45pm, Blacksburg Farmers Market. Give your clothes a second life: bring up to 2 clean garments or other textile goods and skilled volunteers will help fix them for free, and show you how to do it yourself. Free mini sewing kits to take home.

📖 Author event: Erika Meitner at Blacksburg Books
7pm, Blacksburg Books. The award-winning poet reads from her seventh collection, Assembled Audience.

🌍 "Find Common Ground" panel at the Lyric
Doors and tabling 5:30pm, panel 6-8:30pm, The Lyric Theatre, 135 College Ave, Blacksburg. A panel on surveillance cameras, AI data centers, fossil fuel infrastructure, pipelines, and community organizing, with panelists including a criminology professor and a POWHR Coalition representative.

🌍 Talk: "The Heart of Havana" and Juan de Marcos and the Afro-Cuban All Stars
Moss Arts Center / Center for the Arts, Virginia Tech. Free pre-show talk 6:30pm; concert 7:30-9pm ($25-60, $10 students and youth).

🎃 2026 Inside Trunk-R-Treat
6-8pm, Prices Fork Grange Hall, 4248 Prices Fork Rd, Blacksburg. An indoor trunk-or-treat with decorated booths, candy, snacks, and drinks.

👻 Haunted History Tour
7:30-8:30pm and 9-10pm, 204 Draper Rd SW, Blacksburg. A 60-90 minute tour of historic downtown Blacksburg with a ghostly twist, visiting five locations: the Thomas-Conner House, Blacksburg Elementary (1934-1964), the Lyric Theatre, Stroubles Creek near the 5 Chimneys House, and the Alexander Black House. Guide T.J. Prosalenti leads each tour, limited to 15 people, ages 8 and up. Tickets must be purchased at least three hours before tour time. Tours run again Thursday through Saturday evenings.

🛏️ Sleep in Heavenly Peace Volunteer Bed Build @ VTCRC
2:30-6:30pm, picnic pavilion behind 1311 Research Center Drive, Blacksburg. Join the Intuitive Foundation's Blacksburg Chapter and Sleep in Heavenly Peace to build free twin-size beds for children in need throughout Montgomery, Pulaski and Giles counties. Food is provided for volunteers; advance registration is encouraged.

🛒 Christiansburg Farmers Market
3-7pm, Huckleberry Park (weekly Thursdays). This is the final market of the year.

🎃 Sinkland Farms 35th Annual Pumpkin Festival
4-8pm, 3060 Riner Rd, Christiansburg. The final weekend of the festival: pumpkin patch and corn maze, hayrides, farm animals, food trucks, and live music on Saturday and Sunday. Thursday and Friday admission $15, $14 seniors, military and first responders, free for children 3 and under; Saturday and Sunday $20 and $19.

🐕 Center for the Barks Howl-o-ween Dog Parade
5:30-6:30pm, Patricia Buckley Moss Lawn. Free outdoor dog parade, costume contest.

🏛️ Blacksburg Flood Resilience Plan public input meeting
5-7pm, Blacksburg Community Center, 725 Patrick Henry Dr, Blacksburg. Public input survey open until Nov 6.

🎃 Not-So-Spooky Spooktacular
6-7pm, Christiansburg Library, 125 Sheltman St, Christiansburg. Not-so-spooky games and goodies for families ages 2-17: a candy walk, musical pass the pumpkin, pumpkin tic-tac-toe, and decorate a Halloween cookie. Costumes are welcome.

🎃 Radford Halloween Treat Trail
4-6pm, E Main Street, Downtown Radford. Trick-or-treating from E Main Street businesses; businesses not on E Main may set up at empty storefronts.

🎃 Queer HalloweenTown!
From 4pm (punch-card adventure ending at the 10pm Rocky Horror);

🎬 The Rocky Horror Picture Show at The Lyric Theatre 10pm (Late Night Horror Series with Tolls of Madness shadow cast, theme "Tim & Dolly").

Blue Ridge Land and Auction's Bent Mountain tract closes Wed Oct 28 at 4pm. The 95.99 acres at 10568 Bottom Creek Rd in Roanoke County mix open land and woods, with a spring-fed creek, Mill Creek frontage, and building sites. Terms list a 10 percent buyer premium and a $10,000 earnest deposit, with closing on or before Dec 14. A bid in the last two minutes extends the close by two minutes.

Matthews Auctioneers' Dublin sale is Oct 28 in Dublin, with household and open-box lots including a robot vacuum and mop, LED bathroom mirrors, ceramic planters, and a bike. No end time is stated on the listing page.

Matthews' Equipment and Vehicle Auction is Thu Oct 29 at 9am ET, listed through Matthews in Galax. Lots include a 2019 Cat 304E2 excavator, a 2019 Peterbilt 579, a 2019 John Deere 750K dozer, Bobcat and Kubota skid steers, and a 2024 Monarch MK-V electric tractor listed in Blacksburg.

Matthews' Roanoke Auction Addicts and Estate Sale also closes Oct 29, at 2811 Williamson Rd NW in Roanoke. Estate sale items follow lot 1200 each week, and transfers to Galax and Dublin are capped at $30 per order. Matthews' Galax online sale closes Oct 30 at 299 E Virginia St in Galax, with household lots.

Blue Ridge's Christiansburg commercial property closes Oct 30: 0.788 acre, zoned B3, with two commercial buildings. Coming up from the same list: 25.23 acres in Willis on Nov 4, a former church on 1.26 acres in Indian Valley on Nov 6, and 100.48 acres in Hiwassee with a solar-powered hunting cabin on Nov 13.

Linkous' Part 1 Vinton personal property sale ends Sat Oct 31 at noon. Highlights include vintage toys, a Barbie collection, Smurfs and Atari items, an oak sideboard and dining set, Red Ryder BB guns, trains, a Victrola, clocks, sterling, gold and costume jewelry, and carnival, milk and Depression glass. The internet premium is 18.5 percent, with a 3 percent discount for cash or check. Pickup is Mon Nov 2, 9:30am to 4:30pm, at 418 Cedar Ave in Vinton.

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