A Pocatello photographer's brother put down roots at Crystal
Benedicta Wrensted photographed Pocatello and Fort Hall, while her brother Peter, a police chief and forest officer, took up land near Crystal, where his family farmed for decades.
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A homesteader, a Pomona teacher and a century in Bull Canyon
Walter Fredrich took up land at the head of Bull Canyon in 1913 and married the Arbon schoolteacher Rachel Fryer in 1918, and the ranch they began was named an Idaho Century Ranch in 2020.
Arbon man helps build a software firm that grew to 500 workers
In 2019 the *Idaho State Journal* told how Jacob Andersen of Arbon and a boyhood friend from American Falls built the software firm Crossfuze, sold control of it, and how Andersen kept running its technology from his home in the valley.
A Special Thanks…
Iwant to send out a special thanks to the men who came last Saturday morning and cleaned up the trash left from the leaves and trees in my yard.
Thank You!
Once again I have been reminded just how great it is to live in Arbon Valley.
Thank You!
Once again I am reminded of just what a great place Arbon Valley is to live.
Our Grateful Thanks
We would like to say how thankful we are to everyone who has supported us through this last week.
My Two Bits – Dan Nuckols
Iremember when I was not yet a teen lying in bed wondering when I would be considered an adult.
Can You Believe It? Steve is Going To Retire!!!
After almost 47 years as being Arbon's Power County Highway District foreman, Steve is going to retire.
Microcosmos
Arbon Valley is both: a small town that is the very epitome and definition of community living, where qualities such as neighborliness, goodwill and a fine sense of…
Remembering Arbon
Dan Nuckols remembers school, winter roads, neighbors, and the feeling of coming home to Arbon.
Thank You!
Iwould like to send out a great big THANK YOU to all the wonderful ladies here in Arbon that brought food for us after my surgery.
'Tis the Season to be Thankful
opefully, as we all prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, with are minds on Christmas, may we all pause and peruse the last year and think about the small things we take…
Halloween
Ready for a little Trick or Treating? Beware! Goblins and beasties will be roaming the valley Saturday or Sunday, prowling on your doorsteps, begging for a sweet treat…
A Tribute to a Great Teacher
After a total of 22 years, Cindy Pierce has retired from teaching at Arbon Elementary School.
Monte and Cheri Evans Head Church Mission to Africa
onte and Cheri Evans are heading on a two-week Church Mission to Jinja, Africa, and other small villages in the surrounding areas.
Standing on the Eastep
Arbon seems to be hiding in numerous places in Southeastern Idaho.
Arbon Valley – The Best Place on Earth
Arbon Valley has gone through changes over the past 100 years just like any town has.
A Buist missionary brings home the Arkansas girl he baptized
A Buist homesteader went east as a missionary in 1915, baptized a fifteen-year-old in Arkansas, came back to marry her on Christmas Day 1921, and in time her brother came north to farm at Arbon as well.
Joe and Edna Arbon, married seventy years, farmed the valley that bore his name
Joe G. Arbon, a grandson of the settler the valley was named for, died at 92 in January 2000, a month past his seventieth anniversary with Edna, the Arbon schoolteacher he wed in 1929 and farmed beside until 1974.
Fifty years on, Willard and Mamie Andersen look back to Arbon
A 1981 golden-wedding notice traced the lives of Willard Andersen, a dry-farm boy who became Arbon's bishop, and Mamie Haney, who came west from South Carolina.
A university crew goes door to door to map Arbon Valley's past
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.
State trooper delivers a baby girl in a station wagon near Arbon Valley
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.
Expecting one, a Buist couple welcomes three
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.
On horseback to the school bus, an Arbon Valley family remembers the winters
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.
The last of George Arbon's children dies in Los Angeles at 90
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.
Jack and Stella Price, wed at Arbon in 1913, mark sixty years
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.
Two men of 1875, a bishop and a lawmaker, die eight months apart
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, old West Fork homesteader George Daniels Sr. still weeds his own garden
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.
A Pauline sailor's war diary outlives him and his destroyer
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.