Accidents, injuries, sudden deaths, fires, and crimes that touched the valley's families.
Routine notices (meeting notices, reminders and classifieds) are left out of this list; find them under Notices.
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.
On January 20, 1944, a B-24 bomber from Pocatello Army Air Base crashed near Arbon Valley during a training mission.
The original community report and 89 preserved photographs document the Arbon fire of 2010.
In August 1982 a carload of young people and a pickup collided head-on on Arbon Valley Road, killing Harley Hatch, 13, of May, and leaving Brett Lusk, 13, of Arbon Valley, to die of his injuries nine days later.
Mabellene McKie, 46, of Arbon Valley was killed late on June 5, 1982, when the car carrying her and her husband went off a Fort Hall road, struck a pole and ended in a canal.
Half an hour out of Idaho Falls in a spring snowstorm, a Huntington Beach pilot was killed when his Cessna struck a field on a Johnson farm in Arbon Valley on April 6, 1980.
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.
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.
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.
Marine Lt. Reese Andersen, twenty-five, of Arimo and Arbon Valley, was killed by an accidental gunshot near Quang Tri in April 1969 and buried at Arimo two weeks later.
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.
Early on October 3, 1967, two-year-old LaGrande Shay of an Arbon Valley family was struck and killed by a car on Highway 30 about three miles west of Pocatello.
Richard S. Christensen, 47, a Brigham City dry farmer cutting grain in Arbon Valley, died on September 24, 1965, when his combine went over on a hillside and rolled onto him.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Roy D. Lindley, who came to Arbon Valley in 1911 and long sat on the Power County board, was killed hunting bobcats on Bannock Creek in December 1954.
In 1954 a pickup taken at Lava Hot Springs and then a missing Pocatello man's body turned up in Arbon Valley, and by fall twenty ranchers had organized to patrol the valley through the winter.
In May 1954 Gene Bailey, 17, a grandson of Arbon's Lorenzo Bailey, left the family ranch on foot toward the mountains, and sixteen months passed before a valley rancher on horseback found his body in the hills.
A man hired to help bring in the 1953 harvest on Joseph G. Arbon's ranch was caught trying to sell his employer's goods to a neighbor and pleaded guilty to grand larceny.
Twayne Austin, Pocatello's Continental Oil agent and the stake president over Arbon's congregation, died in November 1952 when his tank truck rolled off Highway 37 as he drove home from the valley.
Ross Saxton laid nearly all his Arbon dry farm out in contour strips by 1952, and over the next dozen years the valley's hill ground brought a harvest gadget praised by two Arbon men and a fatal combine accident.