The church farm taxes that put the Arbon school at risk, 1982
In 1982 a dispute over taxes on a 6,742-acre church-owned farm in Arbon Valley threatened the Arbon school, until the church agreed to pay in a compromise with the county.
1982 in the valley.
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Long harvests and lean prices: Arbon wheat, 1951–1982
A harvest that ran into September in 1951, drought in 1954, rain and sprouting wheat in 1968 and a good crop at a poor price in 1982, as the Pocatello paper saw Arbon wheat.
Brett Lusk and the Arbon Valley Road crash of 1982
On August 14, 1982, a car of young people met a pickup head-on on Arbon Valley Road; Harley Hatch, 13, was killed, and Brett Lusk, 13, died nine days later.
Mabellene McKie killed in a car accident at Fort Hall, 1982
On the night of June 5, 1982, Mabellene McKie, 46, of Arbon Valley died when the car she and her husband were in hit a telephone pole at Fort Hall.
Pioneer fortitude: Arbon Valley's hard winter of 1981–82
Drifts, cold, a stalled bus and a flood warning filled the winter of 1981–82, and in February the *Journal* showed how Arbon Valley families got through it.