Ken Estep, Arbon farmer and county commissioner, dies at 71
Ken Estep grew up on his family's Arbon farm, served fifteen years as a Power County commissioner and chaired the regional health board until his death in 2021.
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Arbon Valley Mines
A reader's encounter with abandoned mines prompts questions about an overlooked part of the valley's past.
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.
Herd District Clarifictations
The Power County Prosecutor recently received a telephone call from Barry Williams wherein Mr.
Arbon Herd District
Having reviewed the Deputy Attorney General's advisory letter of May 31, 2012, and having heard comments from Arbon residents on June 25, 2012, perhaps some additional…
Fire in the Valley! Emergency Alert System
This morning, smoke blankets the valley as a result of several fires started by lightening yesterday.
Power Down
It happens. It's gone and there is no retrieval until the "powers that be" give it back. Friday night, April 27, it happened again. We didn't fall into complete darkness…
AED (Automated External Defibrillator)
Iam pleased to announce that we have just received a Phillips AED (automated External Defibrillator) for the Arbon area.
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…
Arbon Post Office
It has come to my attention that the post office located in Arbon, zip code 83212, is to be potentially dissolved.
Possible Arbon Post Office Closing
The Arbon Post Office is on the list of several rural post offices in the state in danger of closing.
Arbon Valley Mines
hile riding my dirt bike on the Onion a few years ago, I stumbled across a trail that made switch backs up the mountain, and led to quite a few old, abandoned mines.
Upcoming Elections Interview With Kenny Estep
Over the past weeks I'm sure you've noticed the election signs and posters all over Arbon, as well as the rest of Power County.
Standing on the Eastep
Arbon seems to be hiding in numerous places in Southeastern Idaho.
Cell Tower News
Anew cell phone tower is being constructed at the base of Green Canyon.
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.
A weekend drive through Arbon Valley to the ruts at Twin Springs
In 1973 the *Idaho State Journal* sent weekend campers over Mink Creek, through Pauline and Arbon, to Twin Springs on the Hudspeth Cutoff, where gold-rush wagon tracks still crossed the hills.
Wildcat well on the Porter farm comes up dry
In the summer of 1969 Intermountain Gas Co. had a test well drilled on Donald Porter's farm near Arbon, but it went down 3,677 feet without a show of oil or gas.
Arbon Valley ranchers win back their freeway interchange
When the state moved a planned freeway interchange away from Bannock Creek in 1969, Arbon Valley ranchers and their neighbors packed a hearing to ask for it back, and by September they had it.
A three-day typing job turned into 33 years for an Arbon ranch girl
In 1967 a Pocatello paper honored Mary Bailey Renberg, who grew up on the Bailey ranch at Arbon, for 33 years as secretary of the Bannock County extension office, a job meant to last three days.
After fifty years at one switchboard, Arbon Valley learns to dial
In December 1965 Arbon Valley gave up the hand-worked switchboard that had carried every call for fifty years, first in the Evans home and then the Newports', and went over to dial telephones the ranchers paid for themselves.
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.
The day a hundred farmers laughed at Mel Bailey's spray plane
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 carried Arbon's first rural mail, dies at 73
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.
At the Pauline crossroads, Jean Daniels Evans keeps her father's old store
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.
Arbon Valley ranchers post a $250 reward and a winter watch
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.
Spring floods leave Arbon Valley cut off on every side
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.
Twice in a month, Bannock Creek cuts the road to Arbon
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.
An Arbon farmer tells Washington to quit paying for the surplus
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.