News, observations, announcements, and remembrances from the original Arbon Valley community blog.
Community blog · 2010–2020 · original publication order · stories from the old papers added since 2026
In December 1967 a Snowville mother and her two boys, stuck in a drift in Arbon Valley, sheltered overnight in a house they reached on foot and rode home after the snowplow came through.
In November 1967 Kay Bailey of Arbon sang a Broadway medley to win the Idaho Farm Bureau's state senior talent find and a trip to the national convention in Chicago.
Early on October 3, 1967, two-year-old LaGrande Shay of an Arbon Valley family was struck and killed by a car on Highway 30 about three miles west of Pocatello.
A 1967 notice called Arbon Valley's former residents home for a reunion; old papers and obituaries show where five homestead families had gone.
In May 1967 all twenty pupils of Arbon's two-room school were to take part in graduation as three boys finished the eighth grade, and the pupils began gathering a history of the valley.
Emma "Minnie" Green, a Pocatello medium said to have advised Ben Ross, turned 100 in 1967; her profile recalled her ranch at Crystal and Gumbo Hill.
In 1967 a Pocatello paper marked Mary Bailey Renberg's 33 years in the Bannock County extension office and printed her memories of growing up on the Bailey ranch at Arbon.