Look for Lockheart Design at Meadfest at The Plant in Pittsboro on Saturday, September 23, from noon - 5 pm.

This event is expected to sell out of seats, so buy your copy of Starter Villain today to guarantee your seat! Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie. But becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits. Jake had enemies, and now they're coming after Charlie. His uncle might have been a stand-up, old-fashioned kind of villain, but these are the real thing: rich, soulless predators backed by multinational corporations and venture capital. It's up to Charlie to win the war his uncle started against a league of supervillains. But with unionized dolphins, hyper-intelligent talking spy cats, and a terrifying henchperson at his side, going bad is starting to look pretty good. In a dog-eat-dog world...be a cat. John Scalzi is one of the most popular SF authors of his generation. His debut, Old Man's War, won him the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His New York Times bestsellers include The Last Colony, Fuzzy Nation, Redshirts (which won the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel), The Last Emperox, and 2022's The Kaiju Preservation Society. Material from his blog, Whatever (whatever.scalzi.com), has earned him two other Hugo Awards. He lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter.

Join Quiltmaker Cafe for our first Pay-What-You-Can Food Truck night! Come out for some great food and company!

NC Oysters 365 will be serving up NC Oysters and Shrimp!

Join us on Wednesdays on the Philip H. Kohl MOSAIC Family Commons (event lawn) for self-care sessions. Sunset Yoga hosted by Yoga Garden PBO on select Wednesdays in August, September and October. Specific times listed below. Sign-up required. September 27 (6 – 7 pm) Sign-up here October 11 (5:30 – 6:30 pm) Sign-up here October 25 (5:30 – 6:30 pm) Sign-up here

Jazz nights are continuing on Wednesdays so don't miss out on the chance to hear some great holiday jazz this month, sprinkled in alongside your classic favorites. Here are our upcoming performers 9/27- Lauren Meehan 10/4- Dave Quick 10/11- GLK Trio 10/18- Steve Hobbs Trio 10/25- Lauren Meehan 11/1- Dave Quick Trio 11/8- Lauren Meehan 11/15- Tony Galiani 11/22- Steve Hobbs Trio 11/29- GLK Trio

Charm Offensive, Ross White's debut poetry collection, explores the space between Dickinson's directive to tell the truth slant and the universal reality of seeing the truth slant without knowing it. Charting the ways that tenderness can resolve into dissonance and uncertainty can resolve into transcendence, Charm Offensive crackles with the dangers of being alive and the joys of remaining defiant. At turns playful and surreal, exuberant and somber, these poems urge readers to find something new to trust in the world. Ross White is the author of Charm Offensive, winner of the Sexton Prize for Poetry, and three chapbooks, Valley of Want, How We Came Upon the Colony and The Polite Society. He is the director of Bull City Press, an independent publisher of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, where he hosts The Chapbook, a podcast devoted to chapbooks. He teaches creative writing, podcasting, publishing, and grammar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, Tin House, and The Southern Review, among others. With Matthew Olzmann, he edited Another & Another: An Anthology from the Grind Daily Writing Series. He also has a boutique design firm, Spock & Associates, and a weekly trivia show and podcast, Trivia Escape Pod.

🗓️ SAVE THE DATE 🗓️ On Saturday, September 30th from 8-3pm, we are having our largest sale of the year! Here are the details of Checkerboard Days: • All animal feeds 40# and heavier will be $5 off each bag with no limits on how many you can buy! • We will also have a grocery sized paper bag available for anything that you can fit in it will be 10% off! • There will be a few drawings on 12 free bags of animal feed. All you have to do is make a purchase and you’ll be entered automatically • @pittsboropet will have a 25% off coupon on one item when you make a purchase that is only good for Saturday, September 30th • We will also be serving Sandra’s Bakery Doughnuts in the morning and ice cream in the afternoon A few exclusions: • All feed must be picked up and paid for on September 30th • No preorders, deliveries, holding or rain checks will be offered • The sale is only good for one day

Enjoy shopping for local products & handmade crafts during the beautiful month of September! The market will be hosting visiting local vendors, along with our own amazing craft vendors. Check out the list of local artists and craftspeople who will be attending the market in September!

Are you, your family and your friends ready to make some memories and have some fall fun, Huckleberry style? Fall Festival starts September 30 and runs every Saturday and Sunday through October 30. We are open from 10 to 6 on Saturday and 1 to 6 on Sunday. Our last ticket is sold one hour before closing. One admission price gives you access to all the fun. We sell our pumpkins, fall decorations, refreshments, and merchandise separately to keep our admission prices low. We have a corn maze, a real pumpkin patch (cut your own pumpkin right off the vine while they last!), a cotton patch, and lots of old-timey games and activities including a mini Field of Dreams. We sell pumpkins of all sizes as well as corn stalks, gourds, and hay bales. We are conveniently located on Hwy 64 between Pittsboro and Siler City, just 30 minutes from Cary, Apex, Chapel Hill, Durham, and Greensboro. It’s an easy drive over a shimmering lake and rushing river, through beautiful rolling country and past farmland complete with horses, cows, and red barns. What to Bring Farm-friendly clothes; closed toe shoes suggested Weather appropriate attire A sense of adventure and fun A camera so you capture the prettiest country view ever! Weekend events schedule

The Triangle Parade of Homes returns starting September 30th-October 1st for three back-to-back weekends - including October 6-8, 13-15. This year, Chatham Park is featuring 13 beautiful homes from 12-5pm! 🏠 Stop by our Information Center to pick up a map! See Chatham Park's 2023 Parade map at https://bit.ly/3PK6sv8 📍 500 Vine Parkway, Pittsboro, NC

The Pittsboro Presbyterian Church invites you to join them at Jordan Lake on Sunday, October 1, at Seaforth Shelter #9.

First Sunday is October 1!!! We have Jeanne Rhea and Lisa Yerby! Everyone is invited!

Join us Monday, October 2nd for a night of music and dancing with the NC Reveler's Orchestra! Complete with a catered dinner by 39 West Catering. Secure your spot for an enchanting evening before it's too late. Visit our events link on our website for more details and a link to purchase tickets on Eventbrite.

John M. Crowell, with NY Life, is a sponsor of the Veteran's Appreciation Golf Tournament to be held at the Chapel Ridge Golf Club on November 11. Please contact him to be a tournament sponsor.