Campaign Calendar

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One-stop absentee voting is available now through Oct. 6. Call your Board of Elections for location/information (Buncombe County: 250-4200)—and remember that, effective this year, you may register when you vote during the one-stop period.

Sept. 29: Meet Asheville City Council candidates Selina Sullivan and Bill Russell, candidates for, at a family event at Aston Park, 5 p.m. Info: 225-5823.

Sept. 30: Fish and chips with Selina Sullivan and Bill Russell at Shiloh Community Baseball Park, 2 p.m.

Oct. 2: Meet City Council candidates Selina Sullivan and Bill Russell at the American Legion Post in Asheville, 7 p.m. Info: 225-5823.

Oct. 3: Meet-the-candidates event at the South Asheville Community Center, 5:30 p.m., with Selina Sullivan and Bill Russell.

Oct. 4: Asheville City Council candidate forum sponsored by the NAACP; 6 p.m. at Brown Temple CMA Church (34 Phifer St.).

Oct. 6: Meet candidates Selina Sullivan and Bill Russell at the North Asheville Library on Merrimon Avenue, 2 p.m. Info: 225-5823.

Oct. 7: Fish and chips with Selina Sullivan and Bill Russell in the old Ingles parking lot, corner of Haywood Road and Patton Avenue, 2 p.m.

Oct. 9: Asheville City Council primary election.

Oct. 11: Leadership Asheville Forum panel discussion on partisan/nonpartisan elections, 7 to 9 p.m. at UNCA’s Reuter Center.

Oct. 12: Voter registration closes for Nov. 6 General Election.

Oct. 15: Haw Creek Community Association Candidates Forum (Asheville City Council), 7 p.m. at Evergreen Community Charter School (50 Bell Road in Haw Creek Valley).

Oct. 17: Asheville City Council Candidates Forum, 7 to 9 p.m. at UNCA’s Reuter Center (Chestnut Ridge Room), sponsored by the League of Women Voters, Kids Voting and NCCCR.

Oct. 25: Black Mountain Aldermen and Mayor Candidates Forum, 7 to 9 p.m., Black Mountain Center for the Arts, sponsored by Black Mountain News and League of Women Voters.

Candidates and campaigners: Send campaign-event info to nholder@mountainx.com. Notices are due by 3 p.m. the Thursday before their publication on the following Wednesday.

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