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Good morning, Blacksburg.
Thursday stays mostly cloudy with a high near 69 and a light southwest wind, with a 20% chance of a passing shower around midday. Showers are possible again after 9pm, and the low is around 50. Friday turns mostly sunny with a high near 66. National Weather Service
In today’s Blacksburg Connect
Let’s get to it.
Thursday, November 5
🥚 Eggs & Issues: “Closing the Gap: Housing and the Future of Growth in the NRV”
8-9:30am, Warm Hearth Village. The Montgomery County Chamber’s monthly breakfast forum takes on housing and growth in the New River Valley.
🚶 16 Squares Walking Tour
Noon-1pm, starting at the Alexander Black House, 204 Draper Rd SW. The Blacksburg Museum and Cultural Foundation walks the original 16 squares of downtown. Tours are limited to 4 people, so RSVP by email to [email protected].
📜 An Evening of Early American History
5:30-7pm, Montgomery Museum of Art & History, 4 E Main St, Christiansburg. Amateur historian Jef Graham explains how about 250,000 people, often called the “Scots Irish,” made up the largest movement of British people to the American backcountry between 1720 and 1776. Then Proclamation Theatre gives a stage reading of “Daniel Boone Meets William Preston,” a one-act play by Mark “Hiram” Curtis. Free.
🧶 Learn to Crochet
6pm, Christiansburg Library, 125 Sheltman St. A beginner crochet session.
🥾 Poverty Creek Trails Coalition 5th Annual Fundraiser and Trail Party
Rising Silo Farm Brewery, 2351 Glade Rd. The volunteer coalition’s yearly fundraiser for the trails it builds and maintains around Poverty Creek.
🏀 Virginia Tech Men's Basketball vs. Mercer
7pm, Cassell Coliseum. The men’s second home game of the season.
🎭 BHS Theatre: “Anatomy of Gray”
7pm, Blacksburg High School, 3401 Bruin Lane. A community performance by the one-act team. $5.
🔭 Radford University Planetarium: “Messengers of Time and Space”
7pm, Radford University Planetarium. A 29-minute full-dome show about a night of observing at the International Gemini Observatory. It also runs Thursday, Nov 12.
🥁 Virginia Tech Percussion Ensemble Concert
7:30-9:30pm, Creativity and Innovation District, Room 150, 185 Kent St. Directed by Annie Stevens, with classical transcriptions, chamber works and traditional West African drumming. Free.
Friday, November 6
🎨 The Y Artisan Fair
10am-6:30pm, Blacksburg Community Center, 725 Patrick Henry Dr. The 57th annual juried craft fair continues Saturday from 9am to 5pm, with a pancake breakfast Saturday from 9 to 11am.
🌍 International Café Hour: Taste of Iranian Culture
4-6pm, Deet’s Place Side Room, Virginia Tech. The Iranian Society at Virginia Tech presents, with food and drink samples prepared by Virginia Tech Dining Services chefs. Free, and all are welcome.
🏐 Virginia Tech Volleyball vs. Notre Dame
6pm, Cassell Coliseum, on ACC Network Extra. The Hokies’ annual Spike Out Cancer match.
🎵 Glencoe Sessions: Addie Levy & Gravel Road Reunion
6-8pm (doors 5:30pm), Glencoe Mansion, Museum & Gallery, 600 Unruh Dr, Radford. Radford native Addie Levy comes home with Gravel Road Reunion. $15, or $50 for all four sessions (limited availability), through Blue Ridge Jamboree..
🏈 Virginia Tech Football at SMU
7pm, ESPN. The 6-2, bowl-eligible Hokies play their first game after the bye week, in Dallas.
🤸 Friday Nite Hype!
7-9pm, VA Techniques, 1550 Roanoke St, Christiansburg. A kids’ gymnastics night with a giant inflatable slide, music, prizes and show-and-tell performances. $12 for members, $15 for non-members, ages 3-22.
Saturday, November 7
🎓 Virginia Tech Fall Open House
8am, Virginia Tech campus. A registration-required open house for prospective students, also held Sunday at 8am.
🥕 Blacksburg Farmers Market Holiday Market
8am-2pm, Market Square Park. Extra craft vendors join the regular market on Saturdays in November and December.
🧘 “The Seasonal Return” Qigong Workshop
12:30-2pm, Sweetgrass Yoga, Christiansburg. Gentle movement, breathwork and meditation with Mintaka Qi. No experience needed, and registration is recommended.
🌳 Genealogy Saturday
1pm, Alexander Black House, 204 Draper Rd SW.
🎓 2026 Nutshell Games
4pm, Anne and Ellen Fife Theatre, Moss Arts Center. Thirty Virginia Tech graduate students get 90 seconds each to explain their research. Family-friendly and free.
🎬 Movie Night at the Library: “National Treasure”
6pm, Christiansburg Library, 125 Sheltman St. A free family movie night.
😂 Comedy Show Benefiting the Arc of the NRV
7-9pm, McClain’s at First and Main, 1614 S Main St, Blacksburg. Comedians from across the country raise money for Arc NRV.
🩺 Free Remote Area Medical Clinic, Day 1
Giles High School, 1825 Wenonah Ave, Pearisburg. Free dental, vision and medical care, with no ID or insurance needed. The parking lot opens by midnight Friday, and doors open at 6am.
Sunday, November 8
🎓 Virginia Tech Fall Open House, Day 2
8am, Virginia Tech campus.
🩺 Free Remote Area Medical Clinic, Day 2
Giles High School, 1825 Wenonah Ave, Pearisburg. The second and final day of the free clinic.
📣 Virginia Tech Competition Cheer Clinic
9am-noon, Valley Elite Allstars, 71 Staples St, Radford. For grades K-12: $55 for K-5 and $60 for 6-12. Register through the VT Rec Sports link in the post, or email [email protected].
🦎 Reptile Expo at Mountain Lake
10am, Mountain Lake Lodge, 115 Hotel Cir, Pembroke.
🤠 Boots on the Ground
3-6pm, Sinkland Farms, 3060 Riner Rd, Christiansburg. Urban line dancing for all ages with Fitness Fun with Tracy, raising money for Demarcus Brown’s scholarship fund.
🏀 Virginia Tech Women's Basketball vs. James Madison
6pm, Cassell Coliseum.
Wednesday, November 11
🎶 Vox Luminis: Monteverdi’s “Vespers of 1610”
7:30pm, Moss Arts Center, Anne and Ellen Fife Theatre. The Belgian early-music ensemble and a full orchestra perform the Baroque masterpiece, about 90 minutes with no intermission. $75, $50 or $30, and $10 for students with ID and youth 18 and under. A free talk, “The Birth of Baroque,” runs 6:30-7pm in the Cube (registration required).
🗳️ Election results: Brown wins sheriff, Harwood and Goodhart join council
Montgomery County has a new sheriff. Tim Andrew Brown won the special election with 21,327 votes (62.24%) to 12,743 (37.19%) for interim Sheriff Robert G. Page, filling the seat Hank Partin left when he retired in April. Patrick R. Jensen, who ran unopposed, won the special election for commonwealth’s attorney with 26,388 votes. All 29 precincts have reported, and county turnout was 53%, with 36,034 ballots cast by 68,193 registered voters.
In Blacksburg, voters filled two Town Council seats in a special election. Leslie C. Harwood received 7,319 votes (53.80%) and Joel L. Goodhart 5,867 (43.13%), with all 12 town precincts reporting. Both terms run through 2027.
Up the ballot, Sen. Mark Warner won reelection statewide with 2,168,857 votes (61.06%) to 1,373,643 (38.67%) for Bert Mizusawa, and carried Montgomery County 21,749 to 13,969. Rep. Morgan Griffith won the 9th District with 193,785 votes (65.95%) to 99,444 (33.84%) for Joy Powers. Montgomery County went the other way in that race, 20,884 for Powers to 14,880 for Griffith.
All three proposed constitutional amendments passed statewide: Question 1 on reproductive freedom 62.39% to 37.61%, Question 2 on marriage 57.39% to 42.61%, and Question 3 on voting rights 56.47% to 43.53%.
These are unofficial results from the Virginia Department of Elections as of 3:44pm Wednesday. Provisional ballots had not been reported yet, and the results become official after local canvasses and state certification.
🏀 Hokies men open with an 88-54 rout of Coppin State
The men’s season started the same way the women’s did on Monday: with a blowout at Cassell Coliseum. Virginia Tech beat Coppin State 88-54 on Tuesday night, forcing 24 turnovers and scoring 26 points off them. Ben Hammond scored eight of Tech’s first 15 points and finished with a career-high seven steals, one short of the program record.
Jaylen Curry scored 19 in his Virginia Tech debut, 15 of them in the first half, when he made three of his first five 3-pointers. The Hokies went 13-for-28 from 3-point range and had 20 assists, and freshman Solomon Davis scored his first college points on a two-handed dunk late in the game.
Tech is back at Cassell tonight against Mercer at 7pm on ACC Network Extra.
🗓️ Your Saturday lineup: eight things to do this weekend
Saturday, Nov 7, is packed from Blacksburg to Radford to Christiansburg. Here are eight ways to spend it, from craft fairs and a 5K to a bike race and a science festival.
🎨 The Y Artisan Fair, Day 2
9am-5pm, Blacksburg Community Center, 725 Patrick Henry Dr. Pancake breakfast 9-11am.
🛍️ 2026 Elliston Craft and Vendor Fair
9am-3pm, Eastern Montgomery Elementary School, 4580 Eastern Montgomery Ln, Elliston. Craft and artisan vendors with holiday gifts.
🏃 Braving Bisset: Run Against Hunger 5K
9:30am, Bisset Park Shelter #3, Radford. Proceeds support the YMCA at Virginia Tech’s food-insecurity work with Beans & Rice.
🧸 NRV Toy & Diecast Show
9am, Central Church, Radford. The last show of 2026 for toy and diecast collectors.
🌿 Riverside Cleanup and Invasive Plant Removal
Morning until noon, meeting at Fairlawn Riverfront, 5980 Dudley Rd. The New River Conservancy and the VT Corps of Cadets clean up the Smith Farm Trail. Sign up through the form in the post.
🚴 Owen Cup, 21st Edition
10am-4pm, starting from Bollo’s Cafe & Bakery, 153 College Ave. The Virginia Tech cycling team’s annual road-race tradition, run since 2006.
🔬 Virginia Tech Science Festival
10am-3pm, Moss Arts Center and Newman Library. More than 50 free hands-on exhibits for all ages, with the researchers behind them.
🍔 NRV Fall Food Fest
11am-5pm, Uptown Christiansburg, 782 New River Rd. Food vendors, local shopping, sweet treats and specialty drinks.
🗺️ See all eight on the Blacksburg Connect map.
📰 News around the NRV
🏛️ Christiansburg Town Council meets Tuesday. The regular meeting is Tue Nov 10 at 7pm at Town Hall, 100 E Main St, and it will be livestreamed on the town’s YouTube page. The agenda wasn’t posted yet as of Wednesday afternoon. Town of Christiansburg
📌 Community Board
🐶 A dog needs a foster for 2-3 weeks in Radford. The dog is believed to be a blue heeler, and the owner can provide food and supplies. post
🦃 Wonder Tree Academy’s Thanksgiving Harvest Box signup is still open. Families can sign up at wondertreeacademy.com, and donations are also accepted. post
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