Fun Run – Thank You!
All funds collected will go to updating our school's playground for the whole community to enjoy.
Gatherings & celebrations.
Dances, holidays, rodeos, fairs, reunions, fun runs, fundraisers, and community celebrations.
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Cheri Evans Retirement
We'd like to celebrate Cheri Evan's retirement from working at the Arbon Elementary School.
Fun Run Results
Iwould like to write a great big THANK YOU! to those who participated or donated to Arbon elementary's Fun Run. We raised approx. $800 to go towards our goal for…
Fun Run – Thank you!
The Staff and students at Arbon Elementary would like to thank everyone who came out and participated in our annual Fall Fun/Run.
Thank You!
The students and staff at Arbon Elementary would like to send a BIG HUGE THANK YOU!
Happy Halloween
Darkness fell that Halloween eve as the Richardardson family arrived to clean the school.
Hay Days Report
This year's Arbon Hay Days was a lot of fun for everyone involved!
History of Halloween
Candy! Jack-'o-Lanterns! Ghosts! Underage mummers dressed up in goblin suits, and kooky witches riding outdated cleaning utensils! Speak the name "Halloween" to any…
Williams Lemonade Stand
An original community record. Open the page to view its preserved photograph or document.
Idaho Crazy Pancreas 5K
Last summer Eileen Estep's great grandson, Chris, was diagnosed with Type I Diabetes.
'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…
Olympic cyclists race from Pocatello to Arbon Valley
On June 25, 1996, riders from national Olympic teams raced 60 miles from Pocatello to Arbon Valley in the eighth stage of the PowerBar International Women's Challenge, the last big women's race before the Atlanta Games.
At 56, Arbon Valley's Sherm Swim says he can't quit roping
In June 1980 the Journal profiled Sherm Swim, the Arbon Valley cattleman who took the 1979 old-timers' roping in Pocatello, and the next March it pictured him and his son Kirk with a calf mauled by coyotes.
Salt Lake City rider wins a 60-mile bicycle race to Arbon Valley
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.
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.
Arbon throws an old-time housewarming for two Orison families burned out in 1967
Months after a fire took everything the Mac Orison and Charles Orison Jr. families owned, Arbon Valley invited all comers to a potluck supper and fiddle music at the Arbon church on their behalf.
Arbon singer Kay Bailey wins the Farm Bureau talent find
In November 1967 Kay Bailey of Arbon sang a Broadway medley to win the Idaho Farm Bureau's state senior talent find and a trip to the national convention in Chicago.
Arbon Valley calls its scattered families home for a 1967 reunion
In 1967 Arbon Valley invited everyone who had ever lived there back for a reunion, and the old papers show where five of its homestead families had gone.
Twenty pupils share the stage as Arbon's school graduates three
In May 1967 every one of the twenty children at Arbon's two-room school had a part in a graduation that handed diplomas to three eighth-grade boys, and the pupils set out to write a history of their valley.
Pocatello businessmen tour Arbon Valley, and a reader says the paper missed it
In June 1965 more than a hundred Pocatello businessmen and Arbon Valley farmers shared breakfast up Mink Creek and toured the valley from Sod Williams's ranch to a proposed dam on Bannock Creek, and a week later a guest scolded the Journal for reporting a tour it never joined.
Arbon girl wins a 4-H forestry trip to Chicago
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.
Sod Williams of Arbon and the family that followed him into the arena
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.
Arbon Valley folk gather in Pocatello for a third winter reunion
For three winters starting in 1948, people who lived in Arbon Valley or once had met in Pocatello for a dinner, a program and a dance, and in 1950 about 175 of them filled the Grange hall.
Santa comes to the Bannock Creek school for 104 reservation guests
Just before Christmas 1948, the West Pocatello Stake's Mutual gave a party with a Nativity program, gifts and Santa Claus for 104 guests from the Fort Hall reservation at Arbon's Bannock Creek school.
Watermelon and a new school plan for Bannock Creek
At a watermelon-fed meeting on August 31, 1948, the Fort Hall agency told Bannock Creek families that the American Falls school district would run their Indian day school that year.
Arbon farmer arrested for selling iced beer from his car at country dances
In July 1932 prohibition officers arrested George N. Judkins, an Arbon farmer, for selling iced beer from his car at Saturday night dances near the Arbon school.
Six women at the south end form the Sunshine Canyon club
In the last days before the 1924 election, six women at the south end of Arbon Valley formed the Sunshine Canyon club and met each week to talk over the vote, child welfare and the lives of great women.
Arbon surprises Mrs. T. B. Evans, its telephone central since the start
In 1923 Arbon's telephone patrons threw a surprise party for Susannah Smith Evans, who had kept the valley's post office, store and switchboard, led its Red Cross and registered its voters.
Arbon Valley throws a two-day party for its first oil well
In June 1921 some 2,000 visitors came to the Toyn ranch for barbecue, ball games and a look at Arbon Valley's first oil well, which the papers then followed through sixteen months of shows and promises.