The following stories happened this week, 25 and 50 years ago, as reported in the Snoqualmie Valley Record. From the Record’s archives:

Thursday, Aug. 20, 1992

• An Idaho man who carried a bomb in his pickup truck and fled from police along Interstate 90 near North Bend last week was preparing to commit suicide. The investigator, John Seltzer, a King County Police detective based in Fall City, said William Duffy, 35, admitted in a statement after his capture that he intended to use the dynamite on himself. The three sticks of dynamite were bound together with electrical tape and armed with a detonator.

• While the Miss Budweiser, the Winston Eagle and the Tide Unlimited hydroplanes were battling for the SeaFair trophy on Lake Washington, North Bend’s Joe Rae, an eighth grader, was racing for the national championship in his J Stock hydro at Sunday Lake in Wakefield, Mich., finishing seventh overall.

Thursday, Aug. 17, 1967

• Are Hippies moving to the hills? Maybe not permanently, but increasing numbers are finding the forests around the Upper Valley a summer solace, according to testimony at this week’s North Bend Town Council meeting. Mayor John Buchanan said that State workers tracking down man-made fires have run into many groups whose long hair, dress, calm spirits and ignorance of fire regulations identify them as Flower Children. “They are always most cooperative, and once the problem of fire danger is explained to them, do everything we ask,” Buchanan said.

• North Bend Town officials asked Wednesday that sprinkling be halted entirely by North Bend water users until further notice. Town Clerk Ruth Semro said investigation Wednesday morning revealed that water supply was too low to allow any sprinkling until the level is restored.

• Six members of the Snoqualmie Valley Riding Club will participate in the Washington State Games Finals at Wenatchee this Saturday and Sunday. Those invited from the Valley club include: Janet Ahlquist, keyhole race; Diane Hover, keyhole, individual pole bending; Maggi Johnson, bareback rescue, Texas barrels, bareback relay; Nellie Johnson, an outstanding barrel racer, Texas barrels, figure 8 stake race; Debbie Koop, bareback rescue, bareback relay, horseshoe scurry, keyhole and individual scurry.