From the ArbonValley.com community blog, 2010–2020. This page preserves the original post; dates, announcements, and contact details reflect the time it was published.
Two men were killed at an Arbon Valley trailer park in May 1986, and years later Sheriff Jim Jeffries told how a wanted poster he printed in Spanish and English turned up the witness who closed a labor camp killing.
After years of break-ins at ranch homes left empty over the winter, Arbon Valley ranchers in 1962 formed a protective association under Sod Williams, offered a $250 reward and planned to log every car that came in.
In March 1958 a farmer named Bradley helped a mired car out of the mud near Arbon, saw that its plates had been smeared over and called the sheriff, and two boys in a stolen Ford were stopped at Downey 40 minutes later.