Fun Run – Thank You!
All funds collected will go to updating our school's playground for the whole community to enjoy.
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Arbon Elementary #383 Strategic Plan 2017
Mission Statement: It is the mission of Arbon Elementary School District #383 to continue to educate all students to his or her highest potential and prepare and equip…
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…
Students save money for new concrete hardtop
Students at a small elementary school in Arbon Valley have a new cement hardtop to play on.
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.
Arbon Valley Elementary Strategic Plan
Mission Statement: It is the mission of Arbon Elementary School District #381 to continue to educate all students to his or her highest potential and prepare and equip…
Thank You!
The students and staff at Arbon Elementary would like to send a BIG HUGE THANK YOU!
To the Secret Santas
We would like to THANK everyone for the wonderful surprise baskets left in the hall last week.
Earth Day
As a tribute to our Mother Earth, the Arbon Elementary School decided to do something great for our community for Earth Day.
Remembering Arbon
Dan Nuckols remembers school, winter roads, neighbors, and the feeling of coming home to Arbon.
Students do Service
The morning of April 22, 2011 found a hoard of scrambling children descending into the barrow pits along Arbon Valley Highway.
Scratch for Schools
On October 19, 2010, teachers Robin Claunch and Debbie Curry, along with school board clerk Cheri Evans, attended the annual Scratch for Schools held at Idaho State…
A Tribute to a Great Teacher
After a total of 22 years, Cindy Pierce has retired from teaching at Arbon Elementary School.
Residents Approve Levy
record number of residents voted on Tuesday to overwhelmingly approve the school levy as proposed by the school board.
Church agrees to pay taxes on its Arbon farm, and the school's worries ease
A 1982 quarrel between Power County and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints over taxes on a 6,742-acre Arbon Valley farm, which had left the Arbon school's future in doubt, ended that December in a compromise under which the church would pay.
Arbon's two-teacher school wins a year for a teacher without his degree
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.
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.
Two Malad teachers retire, both once kept school at Buist
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.
Arbon families ask the Oneida board about a bus that came twelve weeks a year
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.
After 47 years, Lettie Allard leaves her first graders
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.
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.
A Rockland teacher's long career began in a tiny Crystal schoolroom
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.
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.
Arbon teacher lies hurt two hours beside wrecked truck on Mink Creek
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.
Four pupils at Mercer Creek, and a school too far from Arbon to close
In the fall of 1951 Mrs. G. W. Bradley taught four children at Mercer Creek, a school kept open because snow and missing phones cut the Crystal country off from Arbon; by 1955 it and the Crystal school stood empty.
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.
Crystal will close a school and pay its teacher less
In May 1932, with families leaving Crystal for Salmon, District 14 decided to run one school instead of two and lowered the Central teacher's wage to $66.50 a month.
A Horse Island girl takes the school beside the Arbon oil well
In the fall of 1925 Lila M. Wade of Horse Island had charge of District 12's school at Arbon Center, beside the oil well, and nearly seventy years later her obituary remembered her in Arbon's one-room schools.