Keeping the Arbon school district going, 1971–1980
In the 1970s the state talked of merging Arbon's school district into a larger one, and in 1979 the 20-pupil district asked Idaho to let it keep a teacher who lacked his degree.
News, observations, announcements, and remembrances from the original Arbon Valley community blog.
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In the 1970s the state talked of merging Arbon's school district into a larger one, and in 1979 the 20-pupil district asked Idaho to let it keep a teacher who lacked his degree.
In November 1979 an Idaho Museum of Natural History crew was at work on what its curator of archaeology called the first systematic survey of Arbon Valley's historic places.