Hello Fuquay-Varina!
If you haven’t yet, please vote today! Links to ballot measures, candidate information, and polling locations below.
There is a ton of food in your future and lots of neighbors! We’ve got Friday Friday (schedule and specials below), everyone’ s favorite BBQ, Blues, and Brews festival (honestly three of my favorite things all in one place), and then Launch Fuquay-Varina lets you hear from some amazing aspiring entrepreneurs about their great ideas!
Is there anything that’s happening that we missed? Reply and let us know or email us [email protected] to let us know!
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Trivia: Fuquay-Varina has a ton of amazing parks with a new one on its way. Do you know what park in Fuquay-Varina was most recently established?
(Check your answer at the bottom of this email)
VOTE!
Tuesday, November3, is election day!
Ballot Measures + Candidates
Along with the usual election of office holders, there will be three ballot measures this year. Be sure to dig into them and the candidates and vote informed! Here is a non-partisan breakdown from Ballotpedia.
Election Day is this Tuesday, November 3rd!
If you have not voted yet, then Tuesday is your chance! General election takes place on November 3. Check your official, election day voting location here.
🌤️ Weather
Day | Weather | High Temperature | Low Temperature |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday, Nov 2 | Mostly Clear | 68 | 46 |
Tuesday, Nov 3 | Mostly Sunny | 76 | 50 |
Wed, Nov 4 | Mostly Sunny | 79 | 59 |
Thursday, Nov 5 | Mostly Cloudy | 77 | 62 |
Friday, Nov 6 | Potential T-Storms | 75 | 52 |
Saturday, Nov 7 | Mostly Sunny | 73 | 47 |
Sunday, Nov 8 | Partly Cloudy | 68 | 50 |
Monday, Nov 9 | Mostly Sunny | 65 | 47 |
Continuing this fantastic stretch of beautiful weather! Do pack that umbrella and keep an eye on the clouds for a few potential thunderstorms - almost definitely guaranteed to happen when you forget said umbrella…. (Predictions from Accuweather, “commentary” is my own).
the Week Ahead!
Check out below and let us know what else is happening!
First Friday!
Head into the down towns for late dinners, some night-time shopping inspiration, or simply some awesome entertainment as businesses stay open late to celebrate the month! You’ll find deals and specials throughout. Enjoy the Social District and enjoy the evening!
Friday, Nov 6
5:00 - 9:00 pm
Downtown Fuquay and Varina
More information on Facebook.
Icons of Jazz: The Sister Moon Project
Continuing the Icons of Jazz series at the Arts Center, check out this six piece ensemble celebrating the music of Sting and the Police through their unique lens of contemporary jazz. This dynamic ensemble is made of renowned jazz musicians and headlined by Grace Kelly on saxophone, Christian Tamburr on vibraphone, and Chrissi Poland singing.
Friday, November 6
Starts at 7:30 pm
Tickets are $24 and more information here.
Family Fun Farm Day (meet Magnolia!)
Hang out as Mason Jar Brewery before the BBY festival and meet Magnolia, a highland cow calf (and her goat friends).
Saturday, Nov 7
2:00 - 5:00 pm
Mason Jar Brewery
More information on Facebook.
BBQ Blues & Brews
Join the town and loads of others at this beloved annual bash celebrating, you guessed it, BBQ, Blues, and Brews! BBQ samples from the competitors (this alone is worth coming out!), plus live music, food trucks, dessert trucks, local craft beers, and local vendors!
Tasting tickets are $30 at the door or $27 online pre-sale.
General admission is free!
Teapots & Fairytales
Enter a different world, one with flower crowns, fairy wings, and magic on Sunday as Lucci Blue’s partners with Sunny the Fun fairy to turn the cafe into a whimsical garden for children and their loved ones! Food, tea, and goodies but reservations are limited
Sunday, Nov 8
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Tickets are $89 for two, $44 for each additional (sibling or family member)
More information on Facebook.
Launch Fuquay-Varina Graduation!
Launch Fuquay-Varina is an awesome program now graduating its 4th cohort that educates and supports aspiring entrepreneurs in town (including Willow Springs). It includes a 10-week course with this capstone event where the cohort pitches their business plans to local businesses, leaders, and you!
Sunday, Nov 8
5:45 pm - 9:00 pm
More information on Facebook.
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🚶➡️ Around Town
The NEW Arts and Rec Phone App
In time to celebrate the Arts and Humanities month, the Fuquay-Varina Arts Center and Parks & Rec have partner with RecTrac to make an app! Download it on the Android or Apple app stores and use it to keep track of your account, sign-ups, schedules, clubs, and more! I’m really looking forward to using this to keep track of our kids schedules and upcoming classes!
♻️Recycling This Week is for Blue routes.♻️
Check your address here.
Getting to Know Fuquay-Varina
As our home, we live, work, play, eat, and drive around Fuquay-Varina but how well do we know it? This is to introduce you to somewhere you’ve never been to or, perhaps, never even heard of and encourage you to get out to it!
This Week: First Friday!
As you may guess, First Friday occurs the first Friday of every month. But even more than a celebration of date, these events, organized by the Fuquay-Varina Downtown Association, keeps the downtown open later with more deals, specials, events, hangouts, entertainment, and more.
This month is sponsored by Revelry Barber & Shave Shop!
Here’s a non-exhaustive list of events, specials, and goings-on (follow FVDA on Facebook for more details as they release):
American Legion Post 116 has dinner for you! Fried flounder, green beans, cole slaw, and hushpuppies for $12 a plate! Order from your car, they’ll bring it out, and you can head downtown for more festivities!
Aviator Brewing is launching Breaking Brews, west coast style IPA inspired by a meeting with and brewed in collaboration with Bob Buckley of FOX8 News Greensboro.
Neighborhood Barre is partnering with All Time Performance Physical Therapy to host a workshop showing how barre’s intentional low impact movement can shape and improve your running. Workshop led by Dr. Ned Bixby. Class is free but register ahead.
Track Record Vinyl (celebrating its one-year anniversary today!) is hosting a live DJ from 6:00 - 9:00 pm spinning deep cuts, favorites, and everything in between! Sip, browse, and chill.
This edition of FV Dash is sponsored by:
As the weather is cooling its tougher to keep that skin glowing. Never fear! Sunless Society NC is a mobile spray tanning business owned locally by two amazing Fuquay-Varina moms!
Schedule an appointment at your home, at your office, or wherever works best, to keep that glow!
🤔Looking Further Ahead
Town of Fuquay-Varina 2026 Christmas Ornament!
Every year the town puts out a new ornament for Christmas, celebrating a different part of the two and its history. The ornaments cost $15 and need to be manually picked up from the John W. Byrne Municipal Building. Whether you celebrate the holiday or just want a keepsake of the town, check it out at the town online store!
FV Trivia Answer: Hilltop Needmore Park was officially opened February 8, 2020 and the Community Center was opened almost exactly five years later on February 4, 2025.
Till next week!
John + Alyse
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