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

Feb. 10, 1966

• Mobile telephone service is now a reality in the Snoqualmie Valley, Lamar Gaines, manager of the Cascade and Fall City Telephone Companies, announced. Gaines said the transmitter for the radio station is located at Nelems Memorial Hospital which gives a satisfactory range to any location in the Valley and to the Snoqualmie Summit. He stated that additional channels are available for vehicles ranging out of the local area which enable a car or truck to be in touch with any location between Vancouver, B.C. and San Diego, Calif.
• Vapor flood lights will soon be installed at two dangerous Milwaukee railroad crossings in North Bend, Ballarat and Main Streets. This will conclude a campaign top make these crossings safer which the Jaycees instigated last year following a serious accident at the Ballarat crossing. The lights will be equipped with automatic timers which will turn them on at dusk and off at daybreak.

Feb. 7, 1991

• A press conference was held in North Bend last Friday. The purpose: to refute the notion that developers are controlling growth planning in the city. Instead, city planer Sandra Western-Butler described the process of developing a new comprehensive land-use plan as “cautious plodding,” involving people on both sides of the growth issue.
• On Wednesday, Feb. 7, Dwight Hubbard Collins celebrates is 100th birthday. And quite a few things he has experienced in those 10 decades: everything from looking up in the sky to see Halley’s Comet in 1909, to seeing a man walk on the moon 22 years ago, when he was 78. Collins was born on Feb. 7, 1891.