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

Thursday, March 8, 1990

• Chris Ratcliffe, counselor at Snoqualmie Middle School, spoke to the Snoqualmie Valley School District with a plea for counseling at the elementary school level. Ratcliffe is the sole counselor at the middle school, with 520 students. Mount Si High School has three counselors for nearly 800 students. There are no counselors for the 2,088 children at the four elementary schools.

Thursday, March 11, 1965

• Bob Jones, owner of Bob’s Drive-in, Fall City, apprehended a burglar at the drive-in shortly after 4 a.m. on Friday morning. Jones said this was the 10th time in 27 months his drive-in has been broken into.

• North Bend officials met with Snoqualmie’s Town Council Monday to talk about  buying water from the city. Councilman John Buchanan said North Bend’s reservoir is inadequate and officials wanted to protect the town against the possiblity of another water crisis such as the one that occurred a few months ago when a slide shut off the town’s water supply.