News, remembrances, and stories of Arbon Valley from two sources: the newspapers that reported the valley from the 1890s on, and the ArbonValley.com community blog of 2010–2020.
Routine notices (meeting notices, reminders and classifieds) are left out of this list; find them under Notices.
In 1979 the 20-pupil Arbon school district persuaded the State Board of Education to let it keep a teacher who lacked his degree, one chapter in a decade of merger talk, refusals and cost-sharing for a very small district.
In November 1979 a six-member crew from the Idaho Museum of Natural History at Idaho State University began calling on Arbon Valley families for what its curator of archaeology said was the valley's first systematic survey of historic places.
On a July evening in 1978 a mother racing for the hospital ran out of time, and Idaho State Police trooper Brad Flores delivered her daughter in the back of a station wagon in the Arbon Valley area.
In the spring of 1978 Arbon ranchers went from place to place roping and branding close to 1,200 calves, and the *Journal* came out to photograph their day at Sod Williams's ranch.
On May 28, 1978, the senior men in a Pocatello bicycle race rode 60 miles over Crystal Summit to Arbon Valley and back, and Tom Webb of Salt Lake City was fastest.
In May 1978 a Bannock Creek rancher and a young Shoshone-Bannock stockman from the same creek each told a federal judge he might have to sell cattle if the forest grazing case went against his side.
Wally Hardy, 40, of Bannock Creek was killed on Sunday, March 26, 1978, when the pickup he was riding in rolled three times on Arbon Road some eight miles north of the Arbon store.
On the last afternoon of 1977, Denver and Lucinda Sweeten of Buist, both 19, became the parents of triplets, and a year later the Journal came back to see how the three were growing.
In 1976 Jessie Hubbard told a Utah food columnist how weather ruled her family's Arbon Valley dry farm, where in winter her husband David sometimes rode six miles on horseback to reach his school bus.
A 1976 missionary farewell at Arbon, and the obituaries of the farmers who led its Latter-day Saint branch, show Utah papers calling the valley's branch a ward long after it had stopped being one.
For eight years the classified pages of Salt Lake City and Logan papers offered pieces of Arbon Valley, from canyon recreation ground and a cattle range to barnwood, big dry farms and, in 1983, a 320-acre farm the government wanted to sell.
In the late summer of 1975 swarms of Mormon crickets were crawling through Arbon Valley's fields, two years after a grasshopper campaign and sixteen years before the insects came down from the hills again.
Eva Arbon Andersen, youngest child of the man Arbon was named for, died in Los Angeles in 1973, twenty years after her sister Mayme Baker, homesteader, rancher and Pocatello hotelkeeper, died in Pocatello.
In 1973 the *Idaho State Journal* sent weekend campers over Mink Creek, through Pauline and Arbon, to Twin Springs on the Hudspeth Cutoff, where gold-rush wagon tracks still crossed the hills.
Jack and Stella Price, married at Arbon in 1913 in the earliest wedding yet found in the valley, marked sixty years in 1973 after three decades of ranching on the West Fork and the early loss of their eldest daughter.
Joe Arbon, Arbon Valley's first bishop, and William Allard, the first valley man found in the Idaho Legislature, were born ten weeks apart in 1875 and died in Pocatello eight months apart in 1972 and 1973.
At 97, George Daniels Sr., Oneida County's oldest man and once a homesteader on the West Fork of Bannock Creek, recalled a runaway horse herd, a river crossing, old injuries and the square dances he called in Arbon Valley.
In March 1972 the Fort Hall tribes impounded more than 300 cattle on Bannock Creek range that they said belonged to the Arbon rancher Sod Williams, and vowed to keep them until the damage was paid for.
Ralph G. Butler, a son of Pauline homesteaders, kept a diary of the Pacific war that his mother saved after he was lost with the USS Monaghan in a 1944 typhoon, and in 1971 two Idaho State historians readied it for print.
Closing his Arimo barber shop in 1971, Sim Hatch recalled the years he and his brother Abe ran 130 horses in Bannock Valley and on Dairy Creek, until the slump after the First World War broke them both.
Joe Morse Evans, the second son of the Arbon pioneers Ren and Anna Evans, spent years in Pocatello's mills, came home to farm at Arbon in 1947 and died on September 12, 1971, at 72.
David Siewert, born in Russia to German parents, proved up a homestead at Crystal, held on there while drought and debt emptied the basin, and died at Calgary, Canada, in June 1971 at 83.
Retiring from the Malad schools in 1971, Hazel Lusk and Sarah Beard looked back on their early country schools at Buist, where the pay was $70 a month, the water came from home and one horse bit.
In the fall of 1970 Arbon-area parents went to the Oneida School Board at Malad hoping to change a system that brought a bus into their country only twelve weeks a year.
In September 1970 an elderly Fort Hall sheepherder left a broken-down pickup near Bannock Peak and made his own way home while deputies, volunteers, a plane and two mounted parties hunted for him.
A letter from Arbon, Switzerland, set aside in 1966, led Nelda Williams to write a history of Arbon Valley that the Swiss town's newspaper had printed with pictures of her family by November 1969.
As she neared 84 in 1970, Martha Thyberg recalled scrubbing clothes on a washboard by a creek as a young wife, in the years after her husband built their Arbon Valley cabin with his own hands.
In the summer of 1969 Intermountain Gas Co. had a test well drilled on Donald Porter's farm near Arbon, but it went down 3,677 feet without a show of oil or gas.
When the state moved a planned freeway interchange away from Bannock Creek in 1969, Arbon Valley ranchers and their neighbors packed a hearing to ask for it back, and by September they had it.
As Pocatello first-grade teacher Lettie Allard faced retirement in 1969, a student reporter's profile also caught a rare glimpse of her husband, the Arbon homesteader William Allard, at 93.