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. 15, 1991

• Last Wednesday, the Northwest Thoroughbred Racing Association announced it would relocate the longacres horse-racing operation to Fife. the decision ended the hope of some in the Upper Valley that the track would locate to the 525- acre Meadowbrook Farm property in North Bend and Snoqualmie. It had been known for some time that the Valley site was much desired by the people coordinating the racetrack relocation. it was also common knowledge that a major stumbling block was the fact that the farm is in the floodplain and contains significant wetlands.

• There were approximately 80 residents present for last week’s inaugural meeting of Citizens Against Flooding. it was one more chance for county and federal officials to witness the rising tide of anger and frustration in reaction to government inaction on this chronic problem. “I feel flooding has really ruined our lives, Brian Tate told the group. “If nothing is one, you can pretty much kiss your homes goodbye.”

Thursday, Aug. 18, 1966

•The Swingin’ Granny is readying a new dance step for young moderns who, she thinks, have outgrown the Watusi, the Monkey and all the rest. The “Da Dipty” is the title of the new piece she is composing and the dance routine which she will introduce will be “cute and a little bit daintier than all those frantic antics that have been so popular.” This new development in a field which would frighten off most people half her age is the inspiration of the Valley’s own recording artist, composer and television celebrity – Swinging’ Granny – who is really Mrs. Irral Ida Gustava Berger who lives at Echo Lake and who will celebrate her 82nd birthday on Tuesday, Aug. 30.

• At the last Town Council meeting in North Bend on Aug. 10, Council members voted unanimously to support the judgment of John Buchanan who had represented the council in meetings with the State Highway Department on access plans for SR-90 from the vicinity of Snoqualmie to the Edgewick Road. Buchanan had written a letter to the Highway Department declaring that if all plans presented the most feasible was the plan providing for a full diamond interchange in the vicinity of the existing Snoqualmie Interchange