A wedding expo, a kids' bike drive, and a cloudy 59 Election Day

Welcome to issue one hundred ten. Today is mostly cloudy and around 59 with a gusty east wind, and it is Election Day, so bring your photo ID and a little patience for the line.

Today: a wedding expo just up the road, a kids' bike drive, Boise State's climb in the polls, six Meridian events (trivia night, an estate sale, a 49ers watch party), the forecast, and a trivia question about West Ada. Know someone who should be reading this? Forward them the sign-up link →

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🧠 West Ada School District covers almost all of Meridian and is the largest school district in Idaho. Roughly how many students: 15,000, 40,000, or 90,000?

(Answer at the bottom.)

Election Day gets top billing today, then the week settles into trivia at 127 Saloon, a three-day estate sale in the Cadence neighborhood, a Pokémon open play and a 49ers watch party. Friday's estate sale is the one with a built-in countdown: it gets cheaper every day.

✅ Alerts: we could not pull a live NWS alert feed, so check weather.gov/boi for watches or warnings, especially with the wind in the forecast. The NWS Meridian point forecast we normally use was last refreshed Oct. 19, so we did not use it. Today's numbers come from Idaho News 6/KBOI's Boise-area forecast and its Boise readout, so a later update could shift them.

Tuesday, November 3 — Meridian

Mostly cloudy, with gusty east-to-southeast winds of 20 to 35 mph across the Snake River Basin, per KBOI's Monday forecast. Tonight is mostly dry here, with a few showers possible near the Nevada border. No overnight low was published (it was 38° in Boise Monday night). We have no fresh NWS Meridian number, so we cannot say whether Meridian runs warmer or cooler than Boise today. Plan for a few degrees either way. Sunrise is about 7:24 a.m. and sunset about 5:32 p.m. (both calculated, not from NWS).

The week ahead: Wednesday looks sunny with a high near 58, and Thursday and Friday carry only slight shower chances in northern areas. Lower valleys mostly stay dry, warming into the 60s by Sunday. NWS Boise →

Yard note: the City of Meridian's free curbside leaf collection started Monday and runs through Dec. 4. Leaves only, up to 10 paper bags a week (no tape or staples), at the curb by 6 a.m. on your regular trash day, and with this wind, bag early. Recycle the Fall details →

Meridian-proper news is thin again on Election Day (everything fresh was already in a recent issue), so we are saying so: today's stories are regional, and we flag where each one actually happened.

More than 100 wedding vendors are expected at the Idaho Dream Wedding Expo on Saturday, Nov. 7 (10 a.m. to 4 p.m.) and Sunday, Nov. 8 (10 a.m. to 3 p.m.) at Expo Idaho, 5610 N. Glenwood St. in Garden City, Idaho News 6/KBOI reports. Vendors cover venues, photography, catering, flowers, bar service, attire and more, and a fashion show runs at 1 p.m. both days.

General admission is $8, a Wedding Party Pass is $30 and admits up to five people, and kids 12 and under get in free. Tickets are online through the expo's website or at the door, and the article lists a promo code that takes $2 off. This one is in Garden City, not Meridian, but it is the closest big event of its kind this weekend. The image above is an illustration. The promo code and ticket link are in the article →

Source: Idaho News 6/KBOI, published Nov. 1.

Quick question while you are here: purely hypothetical, no wedding required.

The Boise Bicycle Project has received more than 550 requests from community referral partners for its Holiday Kids Bike Giveaway, and it is collecting donated kids' bikes to fill them, Idaho News 6/KBOI reports. It especially needs 16-, 20- and 24-inch bikes plus BMX sizes. Donations are accepted Saturday, Nov. 7, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the alley behind the storefront at 1027 S. Lusk St. in Boise.

Kids draw a "dream bike," and staff and volunteers build bikes from those drawings in November and December ahead of the Dec. 19 giveaway. The group donated more than 1,700 bikes to Idaho families in 2025. This is a Boise drop-off, not a Meridian one, so consider it a nudge to check the garage for the bike somebody outgrew. The image above is an illustration. Read more →

Source: Idaho News 6/KBOI, published Oct. 30.

Boise State beat Texas State 46-45 for its seventh straight win and moved up one spot to No. 21 in the Coaches Poll, Idaho News 6/KBOI reports. The Broncos hold at No. 20 in the AP poll, are 7-1 overall and 4-0 in Pac-12 play, and are the only undefeated team in the conference. Backup quarterback Max Cutforth, filling in for the injured Maddux Madsen, threw three touchdown passes in the fourth quarter, and freshman receiver Rasean Jones scored three touchdowns.

Next up is Saturday, Nov. 7, at Colorado State in Fort Collins, with a 4 p.m. kickoff Mountain time on USA Sports. Not a Meridian story, strictly speaking, but a lot of Meridian living rooms will be tuned in. The image above is an illustration. Read more →

Source: Idaho News 6/KBOI, published Nov. 1.

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Ballot cast, sticker earned. He would like it noted that he read the whole pamphlet.

🧠 Trivia answer: 40,000.

Idaho News 6 described West Ada as the state's largest school district, with more than 40,000 students, in its July coverage of the district's leadership, and Wikipedia notes the district includes almost all of Meridian. For scale, that is more students than the entire population of plenty of Idaho towns. The district's own news page also says it ranks first among Idaho's largest districts in testing. Read more →

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