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Good morning, Blacksburg.
Tuesday wakes up wrapped in a little morning fog (patchy between 7 and 9), then burns it right off into a properly lovely fall day: sunshine and a high near 68, with a crisp low near 43 tonight. This is exactly the weather the leaves have been waiting for.
In today’s Blacksburg Connect:
🚒 Fire Prevention Week: touch-a-truck tonight in Christiansburg
🗳️ Town Council Candidate Forum
🏈 Tech Talk Live with Coach Franklin on Wednesday
Let’s get to it.
Tuesday, October 6
Crafternoon for Kids
4-5pm, Christiansburg Library, 125 Sheltman St, Christiansburg. Drop-in craft: paint a dot-art pumpkin or jack-o-lantern, ages 5 and up.
VT Men's Soccer vs Longwood
6pm EDT, Thompson Field, Blacksburg. The Hokies host Longwood in non-conference play.
Trivia Night @ 540 Social
Weekly Tuesdays, 540 Social, 125 N Main St, Blacksburg. Prizes, food, and drinks with your trivia team.
Christiansburg Fire Prevention Night
6-8pm, Christiansburg Fire Department, 110 Depot St, Christiansburg. Free touch-a-truck and open house: kids can climb on emergency vehicles and tour the station.
Book launch: Cassie Miller, "Meet Me on Mistletoe Lane"
7-8:30pm, Blacksburg Books, 401 S Main St Ste 106, Blacksburg. Free, no registration. Launch party for a Hallmark-style holiday romance.
The Quilting Party 2026 Treasure Sale
Blacksburg Community Center, 725 Patrick Henry Drive, Blacksburg. Free. The Quilting Party's annual treasure sale fundraiser: donated quilting fabrics (sold by the pound), sewing notions, and surface design materials. Cash, check, or Venmo accepted; proceeds support the guild's charitable initiatives and community outreach.
General Business Meeting & Work Session (Now Online)
7:30-9:30pm, online via Hacksburg. The makerspace's weekly Tuesday business meeting and open work session, open to the public. Join at meet.hacksburg.org/OpenGroupMeeting; a good first stop to meet members and see the space.
Wednesday, October 7
Blacksburg Farmers Market (Wednesday Market)
2-6pm, 108 W Roanoke St, Blacksburg. The year-round, producer-only market with seasonal produce, baked goods, and crafts.
Tech Talk Live with James Franklin
6-7pm, McClain's at First & Main, 1614 S Main St, Blacksburg. Free, first-come seating. Coach Franklin joins hosts Mike Burnop and Evan Hughes to break down the Pitt heartbreaker and look ahead to Cal.
Teatro La Plaza: "Hamlet" (Night 1)
7:30pm, Anne and Ellen Fife Theatre, Moss Arts Center, 190 Alumni Mall, Blacksburg. Peru's Teatro La Plaza: eight actors with Down syndrome reimagine Hamlet in Spanish with English supertitles; 95 minutes, no intermission. $30 general, $10 students and youth 18 and under.
VT Jazz Ensembles Concert
7:30-9pm, Creativity and Innovation District, Virginia Tech. Student jazz ensembles from across majors take the stage.
Haunted History Tours
7:30 and 9pm, starting on the lawn at 204 Draper Rd SW, Blacksburg. A 60-90 minute ghost walk with T.J. Prosalenti covering five stops including The Lyric and Stroubles Creek. Limited to 15 people, ages 8 and up; buy tickets at least 3 hours ahead.
MFA Salon
7:30-8:30pm, Blacksburg Books, 401 S Main St Ste 106, Blacksburg. Readings by VT MFA writers Ashlyn Peralta, Liz Tresidder, and Sandra Riffler.
Wednesday Bluegrass Jam
Wednesday evening, River City Distillery, Radford. Weekly jam: grab a drink, bring an instrument, or just kick back and listen.
"Are You Smarter Than a Beertender?" Trivia Night
6:30-8pm, 501 2nd Street, Radford. Weekly Wednesday trivia at a craft beer spot, with food trucks and prizes per round.
"Weird Al" Yankovic: Bigger & Weirder 2026 Tour
7:30pm, Salem Civic Center, 1001 Roanoke Blvd, Salem. The polka-rock legend with special guest Puddles Pity Party. Tickets $34.50-179.50 via Ticketmaster. Worth the drive down 81.
Thursday, October 8
16 Squares Walking Tour
12-1:30pm, meet at the Alexander Black House, 204 Draper Rd SW, Blacksburg. Every-other-Thursday walking tour of the original 16 squares of town. Limited to 15 people; RSVP to [email protected].
"Beyond the Frame" Gallery Tour
12-1pm, Moss Arts Center galleries, 190 Alumni Mall, Blacksburg. Free monthly noontime curator tour of the Fall 2026 exhibition with Director of Visual Arts Brian Holcombe.
Christiansburg Farmers Market
3-7pm, Huckleberry Park, 300 Huckleberry Pk Dr NW. Weekly Thursdays through Oct 29: produce, baked goods, and crafts.
Sinkland Farms 35th Annual Pumpkin Festival (weeknight)
4-8pm, 3060 Riner Rd, Christiansburg. Weeknight edition with a hayride to the patch, corn maze, Kids Zone, terrace bar, and food trucks. Runs Thu-Sun weekly through Nov 1.
Autumnal Evening of Songs and Stories
6:30pm, Blacksburg Museum, 204 Draper Rd SW. Local musicians play spooky-season ballads and songs of haunting, death, mourning, and creatures of the night.
Carilion vs. LewisGale Annual Charity Softball Game
6:30pm, Carilion Clinic Field at Salem Memorial Ballpark, 1008 Texas St, Salem. Free admission, raffles, and live music; donations benefit the American Heart Association.
Town-Gown meeting: "Entrepreneurship in action"
6:30-7:30pm, Creativity and Innovation District Multipurpose Library, 185 Kent St, Blacksburg. Free. This month's town-gown conversation spotlights The Local, the downtown retail incubator opening October 14, and VT's Entrepreneur Resource Center.
Barry Caldwell at The Farmhouse
6-9pm, The Farmhouse, 285 Ridinger St, Christiansburg. No cover; patio seating is first come, first served. Part of the weekly "On The Patio" Thursday series.
Danielle Talamantes and Kerry Wilkerson
7:30-9:30pm, Squires Recital Salon, Virginia Tech. A meditative evening of German art song in the intimate Recital Salon.
🚒 Fire Prevention Week: touch-a-truck tonight in Christiansburg
It is Fire Prevention Week, the national observance proclaimed by President Coolidge in 1925 and held in the week of October 9 to mark the Great Chicago Fire that began October 8, 1871. This year's week runs October 4-10, and the theme is "Safe Charging Is a Superpower," all about lithium-ion battery safety. Think e-bikes, phones, and power tools charging overnight in your garage.
The local way in: tonight, the Christiansburg Fire Department throws open its doors for Fire Prevention Night, 6-8pm at 110 Depot St. Kids can climb on the trucks, tour the station, and meet the firefighters, all free. A fine excuse to finally show your kids the inside of a fire engine. Christiansburg Fire Department
🗳️ Town Council Candidate Forum
A community candidate forum is scheduled for Thursday, October 8 at the Blacksburg Municipal Building. Council candidates Joel L. Goodhart and Leslie C. Harwood will participate ahead of the November special and general elections to fill council seats. If you want to hear directly from the candidates before you vote, this is the room to be in. League of Women Voters of Montgomery County
🏈 Tech Talk Live with Coach Franklin on Wednesday
John Love's 36-yarder is in the books, and the Hokies are 4-1 heading to Berkeley: Virginia Tech at Cal this Saturday at 3:30pm ET on the ACC Network, with the Hokies opening as 10.5-point favorites. If you are still processing Friday night's heartbreaker, Wednesday is your night: Tech Talk Live with Coach James Franklin runs 6-7pm at McClain's at First & Main, 1614 S Main St. Hosts Mike Burnop and Evan Hughes will break down the Pitt loss and look ahead to the Bears. Free and first-come seating, so get there early. Tech Talk Live / VT opens as a touchdown-plus favorite at Cal
📰 News Around the NRV
📚 VT Humanities Week, Oct 19-23. This year's theme is "Legacies of 1776," with a keynote by Scott Simon at The Lyric on Oct 20. VT News
⛽ Gas check. Regular is $4.12 a gallon in the NRV as of Monday, per AAA (via WSLS). WSLS
🏐 Christiansburg volleyball sets a school assist record. The Blue Demons topped Hidden Valley 3-0 on Friday, their 14th win of the season, with a new school assist record. WSLS
📌 Community Board
House of Shadows at St. Albans wants your scares. The haunted attraction at the St. Albans Sanatorium is looking for volunteer scare actors. Sign up in person Fridays or Saturdays at 4:30pm at St. Albans, or message their Facebook page. FB post
A new dog-walking service in Blacksburg. Barksburg Walks, started by a VT student, offers 20-minute walks for $15 ($5 per extra dog) with longer walks available, and proceeds are donated to charity. Book via DM, (443) 519-7566, or [email protected]. FB post
A community meal milestone. A local meal-serving group is at 1,890 of its 2,000-meal first-year goal, with 110 to go in its final month. A thank-you post to everyone who has shown up. FB post
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