Storms, deep snow and cold, drought, floods, and the seasons the valley remembered.
Routine notices (meeting notices, reminders and classifieds) are left out of this list; find them under Notices.
In August 2017 a human-caused range fire jumped the Arbon Valley Highway, burned about 53,000 acres at the north end of the valley and sent the people of Pauline from their homes, though no house was lost.
AMERICAN FALLS, Idaho — Cereal crop experts have discovered stripe rust infections in three areas of southeast Idaho and warn cool, wet weather could result in heavy…
John O'Connell/Capital Press Arbon Valley, Idaho, grower Jeff Campbell, son of Ken Campbell, plants fall wheat, benefiting from recent moisture.
The massive wildfire reported on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation on Wednesday afternoon is now listed as 10 percent contained.
Dryland farmers throughout Eastern Idaho say they're pleased by the growth and condition of their fall grain crops, which enjoyed strong germination thanks to ample soil…
ARBON VALLEY, Idaho — Ryan Weston believes record heat and extreme dryness have already taken 90 percent off of his potential spring and winter wheat yields.
Hans Hayden is one of the firefighting farmers of Arbon Valley.
This morning, smoke blankets the valley as a result of several fires started by lightening yesterday.
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…
The original community report and 89 preserved photographs document the Arbon fire of 2010.
A retrospective account of the winter of 1948–49, originally published in the Power County Press in 1999 and shared on the community blog in 2010.
The deep green of the fall wheat in contrast with the bitter-sweet chocolate brown of the fresh plowed fields makes me want to mimic it in a quilt for my bed.
From a 1994 plan to seed the clouds to a crop rescued by May rain in 2020, the farm press followed Arbon Valley's dryland wheat growers through good years and bad.
From the Mosho fire of 1988 to the Power Line fire of 2016, range fires kept burning in and around Arbon Valley, and the farmers kept turning out to fight them.
In August 1982 Arbon Valley growers cut a sound dryland wheat crop they expected to sell at a loss, the latest turn in three decades of late harvests, drought and rain-soaked fields.
After a January of drifts, deep cold, a stalled school bus and a flood warning, the *Journal* went out to Arbon Valley in February 1982 to see how its farm and ranch families were getting by.
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.
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.
As he neared 89 in 1969, Charles Connelly told a Pocatello paper about thirteen years on a Crystal homestead, where snow buried the cabin, wheat went to Arimo by sled and a blizzard once hid the way home.
When a drift closed the Arbon Valley road in December 1967, a Snowville mother and her two sons walked to a distant house, got through the night on an old mattress and two blankets, and caught a ride home while the Highway Patrol hunted for them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A lightning fire near Crystal in July 1958 was thought stopped, came back on the wind and burned 3,000 acres, one of a string of range fires the papers reported around Arbon Valley from 1948 to 1978.
In September 1957 Indian and white stockmen spent six days riding through snow and then dust to gather about 1,200 cattle off the reservation range on Bannock Creek, and Merle Meyers, raised at Crystal, rode along and wrote it up.
In March 1955 Rodney Smith and Calvin Williams, two young men off Arbon Valley farms, pulled a toboggan into snowbound Garden Creek basin, lived six days in a tent and came out sure of a good water year.
In February 1954 a freezing fog that would not lift coated the wires around Arbon with frost until 12,500-volt lines bowed nearly to the ground and poles snapped.
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.
In the mid-February blizzard of 1949, a Rattlesnake rancher skied nine miles to report that some 60 families had gone three weeks without supplies, and a weasel brought a sick man out from Mercer Creek after a rescue plane stuck in the snow.