Thursday, Oct. 26, 1989

• Here’s a new idea we’ll be hearing about—Shared Access Lines of Washington. That’s what Robert Ishimitsu wants to call a company that will offer an alternative to long-distance telephone rates from the Valley to the Eastside, Seattle and Tacoma.

• More than 40 people, including Rep. Rod Chandler, drove 15 miles out the Middle Fork Road and hiked to the river Sunday to dedicate the new forest service bridge. Chandler hoped user of the Dingford Creek Trail Bridge would “never hear the noisy crotch-rocket” off-road vehicles on the bridge. He has lobbied against ORVs in wild areas.

Thursday, Oct. 29, 1964

• Ten boys, 11 to 16 years of age, have confessed to doing $910 worth of damage to the Northern Pacific railroad in Snoqualmie Oct. 11. The youths rolled a a pushcar of a bridge, threw off water barrels, broke locks off switches and left one switch open at a bridge end, which could have caused a train wreck.

• New shelves mean room for new books at Snoqualmie library: 50 new reference books, about 170 juvenile books, adult and youth nonfiction, and new chairs and a table for the Children’s Corner.