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.
On Thanksgiving Day 1964 an Arbon family and a Pocatello family met head-on in a snowstorm north of Arbon, eight went to the hospital, and the lawsuits that followed were settled on the day of trial.
Just after the war, Arbon farmer Mel Bailey had Pocatello pilot Curley Wilson spray his weedy wheat from a homemade rig on a light plane, the first job of a crop-spraying business that kept 22 men busy by 1964.
Newell Lishman, who homesteaded under Bowen's Peak and carried the mail on Arbon's first rural route, died in 1964, and his obituary said a canyon near Arbon had been named Newell Canyon for him.
When retired teacher Agnes Hartley of Rockland told a 1963 luncheon that her teaching had begun at Crystal, she meant the little Thacker-neighborhood school she taught as Agnes Burns in 1915–16.
Lynne Wisecarver, 11, of Sacramento, died on July 4, 1963, after a spooked team threw her from an iron-wheeled wagon on her grandparents' farm in Arbon Valley.
In 1963 a Journal correspondent found Jean Daniels Evans minding the store at the Pauline crossroads, while her father, T. C. Daniels, remembered the same counter in the lean years of the early 1930s.
Two Pocatello charter planes were lost on a stormy night in March 1963; one crashed on the Ben Hayden ranch north of Crystal, killing its pilot and passenger.
In January 1963 Merle Meyers, his sons Jerry and Jay, and Kenneth Pevoe ended the career of a big female mountain lion blamed for lost sheep near Bannock Peak.
In 1962 a 16-year-old Arbon girl called Bunnie took a sectional 4-H forestry award and a trip to Chicago, a year after her valley's forestry club had caught the state leader's eye at the fair.
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.
When a crop-dusting plane went down and exploded in Arbon Valley early on July 21, 1962, a farmer named Joseph Roberts got the pilot out just in time, and the wreck set the range on fire.
When melting snow sent the creeks over their banks in late March 1962, Arbon Valley lost its roads, its power and its telephone, and the mail came in over planks laid across a broken highway.
In the winter of 1962 two floods a month apart broke the oiled road up Bannock Creek, stranding families and idling the Arbon school bus, and the creek had run over that road before and would again.
Half a century after Jay and Marcena Whiting went to homestead at Crystal, their twelve children threw them a golden wedding party in Pocatello on the weekend the whole Whiting clan came together.
Minutes after leaving the Pocatello airport in a rainstorm on March 24, 1961, Gayle E. Waters of Utah was killed when his small plane came down near Bannock Peak, some five miles northwest of Pauline.
William N. Jones came from Dayton, Washington, to a homestead near Pauline, farmed there about eleven years, then worked on the American Falls dam and the moving of the town.
Otto Andersen's death in 1960, between John's golden wedding in 1956 and Ezra's death in 1964, closed the story of the Mendon brothers who settled at the head of Bannock Creek.
In 1960 Arbon Valley farmer Clyde Jenson handed a violin called a 1704 Stradivarius to the guest soloist at a Pocatello symphony concert, and nine years later he was billed to play it himself.
When Arbon teacher Neil S. Miller, 65, ran his truck off the Mink Creek road on May 23, 1960, more than two hours passed before anyone came upon him.
In April 1960 a reservation policeman and three men reached a skeleton, two old rifles and a powder horn under a boulder in the Bannock Creek district, and a Pocatello man wondered if the trapper Old Yank had gone there to die.
At a Senate hearing in Twin Falls in 1960, Arbon Valley cattleman Lloyd Brower told how a quarrel with sheepmen moved his herd onto the national forest, and objected to a 40 percent cut there.
In December 1959 Lamond J. Bailey of Arbon, signing himself "A Surplus Farmer," wrote to a Pocatello column that the government should end farm subsidies and leave business alone.
In October 1959 three-year-old David Earl Stohl died on his family's Arbon farm after reaching for a toy shovel in the hopper of the power auger his father was using to load grain.
In September 1959 a state engineer said 43 miles of Highway 38 through Arbon Valley were days from done, the biggest piece of a few years in which the valley's roads were oiled one stretch at a time.
John C. Andersen, who came to the head of Bannock Creek as a boy in the 1890s and later served his ward, a school board and a highway board, died at Clifton on August 1, 1959, three months after his wife.
In one week of July 1959 the Bannock Creek district lost Frank Bell, found in the creek below his footbridge, and William Lipps, 88, a former president of its cattlemen's association.
A lightning fire near Crystal in July 1958 was thought stopped, came back on the wind and burned 3,000 acres, one of a string of range fires the papers reported around Arbon Valley from 1948 to 1978.
A Pocatello Chamber of Commerce farm tour stood on the Mink Creek divide on July 11, 1958, and heard that 76 farms held the 59,827 acres of cropland in the Arbon-Crystal district.
From Sod Williams's prize quarter horse in 1958 to his great-grandson's rodeo title in 2025, the papers followed an Arbon ranch family through the show ring and the arena.
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.