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

Thursday, Jan. 3, 1992

• Every two years, the Snoqualmie Valley School District goes to its patrons for approval of a maintenance-and-operations levy. In early February, local voters will also be asked to help the district purchase eight new school buses via a transportation vehicle levy. Voters will decide on a bond issue to pay for improvements to administration campus.

• The Aldarra Properties request for a rezone, made to facilitate a 297-unit housing project on the Boeing Farm west of Fall City, has been struck down by King County. The Zoning and Subdivision Examiner’s decision to deny the request was the second in two years. Also denied was a request for a local service area adjustment for sewers.

Thursday, Jan. 5, 1967

• The committee representing the Preston Community club in its fight to have the Preston School reopened hopes to be able to present a private contractor’s estimate on repair of the building at the meeting of the Issaquah School Board. No classes have been held in the school since Thanksgiving when the board ordered its closure. The Preston club maintains that it can be repaired and brought up to standard at a not unreasonable cost, and has requested the board to reconsider the decision which deprived the community of its school.

• Warren C. Gonnason, 41, who grew up on a farm near Fall City and who graduated from Tolt High School, resigned Jan. 3 as King County Engineer to become Alaska Commissioner of Highways at an annual salary of $20,000. Gonnason was named assistant county engineer in 1959 and was appointed engineer in 1965 to success Walter Winters, who retired.