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Happy Monday, Meridian!
Yesterday's cold front did the hard part, so this morning you get the other half of the deal: fog in the low spots before ten, then sun and a high around 68. Below: eastbound I-84 was shut for three hours yesterday morning after a medical emergency behind the wheel; gas went up ten cents in a single overnight and Boise took the worst of it; Ten Mile Farms has opened its corn maze and pumpkin patch for the season; there's a free women's riding clinic Friday and a ceilidh at The Roosevelt the same night; and we finally answer who Storey Park is named after, which matters tonight of all nights. Let's get into it.
📌 In this issue
🚧 A medical emergency closed eastbound I-84 at milepost 45 for three hours
⛽ $4.72 statewide, $4.74 in Boise — and Boise jumped 16 cents in one day
🎃 Ten Mile Farms is open: corn maze, pumpkins, hayrides, closed Sundays
🗓️ Six things on, including a ceilidh and a free women's riding clinic Friday
🌫️ Foggy start, 68 and sunny, then back into the 80s by the weekend
🧠 Trivia
The Monday Night Market sets up at Storey Park this afternoon — 14 acres at Main and Franklin, the oldest city park Meridian has, and the one with the pool, the dog park and the Chamber office all crammed onto it. It's named after a person. Who? (Answer at the bottom.)
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🗓️ What's on around town
Six things, all of them in Meridian, none of them repeats. It was a thin week on the calendars — the two new items Hello Meridian added are both actually in Boise — so a couple of these come off the Facebook pull instead.
Today — Monday, Sept. 14
🎨 Toddler Time Arts & Crafts, 10:30–11:15 a.m., Treasure Valley Arts, 1530 W. State St. Suite B. Forty-five minutes of glue, paint and small people, which is roughly the attention span involved. Good rainy-day-adjacent option for a foggy morning. Add to calendar →
Wednesday, Sept. 16
🎲 Open Board Game Night, 7–10 p.m., Phoenix Fire Games, 94 E. Fairview Ave. Weekly, free to turn up, and the shelf is the point — you don't need to bring anything or know anybody. If the card-game nights there have never been your thing, this is the one that isn't a tournament. Add to calendar →
Friday, Sept. 18
🏴 Ceilidh Celebration, from 5 p.m., The Roosevelt, 126 E. Broadway Ave. The Scottish Society of Southwest Idaho's warm-up party for its Heritage Festival, which itself runs the following two days over at Expo Idaho in Boise. A ceilidh is a social dance where somebody walks you through the steps first, so not knowing any is the normal condition. Outdoors this year. Add to calendar →
🏍️ Ladies Skills Lab, 5:30–8:30 p.m., Learn to Ride at High Desert Harley-Davidson, 2310 E. Cinema Dr. Free. A women's clinic on the slow-speed, low-glamour skills — braking, tight turns, looking where you want to go rather than where you're afraid of going. Aimed at riders who already have a bike and would like to stop white-knuckling the parking lot. Add to calendar →
Saturday, Sept. 19
🚶 Boise Walk for Apraxia, 10 a.m.–1 p.m., Julius M. Kleiner Memorial Park, 1900 N. Records Ave. Free. Yes, it says Boise; no, it isn't in Boise — it's at Kleiner, here, and has been for years. Childhood apraxia of speech is a motor-planning disorder: the child knows the word and the mouth won't cooperate. The walk funds therapy access and research. Add to calendar →
Worth putting on the calendar now — Saturday, Sept. 26
🐕 Free Pack Walk, 9 a.m., Bear Creek Park, 2400 S. Stoddard Rd. A group dog walk, free, and the useful kind if your dog is a menace on leash around other dogs — a structured pack is an easier place to practise than a dog park. Twelve days out, but it's the first new thing on that far end of the calendar in a while. Add to calendar →
Already covered, still happening: the Monday Night Market is at Storey Park this afternoon and Meridian Art Week wraps up Saturday; the Hispanic Heritage Month 5K at Kleiner and the Village Classroom wine class are Wednesday; VETWORKING, the Learning Experience playdate, TMC Rooted and Coffee with the Mayor are all Thursday; Touch-A-Tractor, Valley Wide's customer appreciation day, Feminine Genius, Constitution Week's last day and Foster the People are all Saturday. We've run them already and we're not going to do it twice.
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🌫️ Weather
Yesterday was the shock. Today is the pleasant part, with one catch before breakfast.
Today (Monday): Patchy valley fog before about 10 a.m., then sunny, high near 68. The fog is the only thing worth planning around — it sits in the low spots and along the canals and it can take a school-run's worth of visibility with it, so give yourself the extra five minutes.
Tonight: Mostly clear and cold for the date, low around 44 to 45, with patchy fog forming again toward morning.
Tuesday: Same shape — fog early, then sunny, high near 72.
The rest of the week: Up and to the right. Idaho News 6 has us climbing back into the 80s by the end of the week and mid-80s by next weekend, with the extended outlook running warmer than normal for late September. Yesterday was not the start of fall; it was a day off from summer.
Sourcing note: the 68 is the live Boise three-day strip, which we checked three times over the course of the evening and watched move (53 → 64 → 66 on the "now" reading) while Monday held at 68 — that movement is how we know the strip is live. The NWS Meridian point file puts our high at 67 with fog before 10 and a low of 44, and the week-ahead framing is from Idaho News 6's Isaiah Sharp, filed just after midnight this morning. One caveat we'll keep repeating: the NWS file is frozen on a Sept. 9 timestamp for the fifth run in a row. It happens to agree with everything else today, which is exactly why we don't lean on it alone. Boise ran one degree warmer than the Meridian point this time — call it a wash, and plan for the higher end.
📰 The news
🚧 A medical emergency closed eastbound I-84 for three hours
If you sat in it yesterday morning, here's what it was. At 8:15 a.m. Sunday, a 24-year-old Caldwell man driving a 1996 Ford Ranger east on I-84 at milepost 45, near Meridian, suffered a medical emergency behind the wheel. The truck hit the guardrail on the right shoulder, rolled, and came to rest on its driver's side in the travel lane — which is why this became a three-hour closure rather than a shoulder incident.
Idaho State Police say a juvenile passenger was in the truck. Eastbound lanes were blocked for about three hours while crews worked and cleared the scene. Idaho News 6 has asked ISP about the condition of the driver and the passenger and hadn't heard back as of last night, so we don't know how they are, and we're not going to guess.
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⛽ Gas went up ten cents overnight — and Boise took sixteen
We've been holding this one for a week and it kept getting worse. AAA's most recent Idaho reading has the statewide average for regular at $4.72 a gallon — ten cents more than the day before. Boise's average is $4.74, up sixteen cents in a single day, one of the sharpest one-day moves in the state. A month ago Idaho was at $4.30. A year ago it was $3.46.
AAA Idaho's Matthew Conde points at escalating conflict in the Middle East — the US and Iran, and fighting between the Yemeni Houthis and Saudi Arabia over the Bab el-Mandeb shipping lane — with West Texas Intermediate trading near $97 a barrel and possibly headed past $100. The detail that should worry Treasure Valley drivers most is a neighbour's problem: Utah, which supplies most of Idaho's gasoline and diesel, spiked 23 cents in one day. Conde's words, not ours: that "could have major implications on pump prices in our state and across the entire Rockies region."
Normally prices fall after Labor Day — people stop travelling, winter-blend fuel is cheaper to make. Conde's assessment of this year: "anything but typical. Far from it."
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🎃 Ten Mile Farms is open for the season
Fall opened in Meridian on Friday. Ten Mile Farms, 5040 S. Ten Mile Rd., started its season and runs through Oct. 31 — corn maze (three of them, including a mini maze for short legs), pumpkins to pick and buy, hayrides, barrel trains, straw bale slides and a corn pit, which is a sandbox except it's corn and it is objectively better.
The part worth writing on the fridge is the hours, because they are not what you'd assume: Monday to Friday it doesn't open until 4 p.m., Saturday it's 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., and it is closed Sundays. So the classic move — drifting out there on a Sunday afternoon with the kids — is the one that doesn't work. Tickets at the gate are fine, cards accepted. Michael and Jocelyn run it, and the farm leans on the agricultural side of things rather than just the photo backdrop.
Lowe's in Kuna and Shindig in Nampa opened the same weekend, and we covered Lowe's last week, so we'll leave those there. This is the one in our city limits.
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Trivia answer: former Meridian mayor Don Storey. Storey Park opened in 1980 and is the oldest park the city owns — 14 acres at Main and Franklin, a block from the Dairy Barns and the Speedway. For a park that size it carries an absurd amount of freight: the Meridian Pool, the Storey Bark Park off-leash area, the Meridian Chamber of Commerce office building (which is not a city entity, it just lives there), two rentable picnic shelters, horseshoe pits, and a baseball diamond named Mo Brooks Field. One small housekeeping note while we're here — the city's own park page gives the address as 205 E. Franklin Road, which is the number we've been publishing. Event listings for the Monday Night Market have been split between 205 and 215 for weeks now. The city says 205, so 205 it is.
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