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

Thursday, Sept. 20, 1990

• The multi-party lawsuit filed by Friends of Snoqualmie Valley over the Snoqualmie Ridge annexation was dismissed by King County Superior Court Judge Norman Quinn.

• On the first of October, Carl Blomberg of North Bend will assume the office of lieutenant governor for the Eastside division of Kiwanis’ Pacific Northwest District. He is only the third man to earn that office in the history of the local club. Also on Oct. 1, Judy Dammarell of Snoqualmie becomes the first woman president of the Kiwanis Club of Snoqualmie Valley.

• A handful of businesspeople are trying to come up with guidelines to establish a historic district in Snoqualmie.

Thursday, Sept. 23, 1965

• Mr. Charles E. Putman, who has taken an interest in the restoration of the Fall City totem pole, called on LeRoy Bronemann on Sept. 16 to inquire about progress of the project. Mr. Putman, a former shingle man, has made two $25 donations toward the restoration. The pole was felled by wind last winter and was moved to a shed on the Boeing Farm where Dan Grown and Bronemann started restoration.

• County Commissioners appropriated $24,900 to modify the interchange at the Echo Lake Cutoff Road and Highway 10 and to improve and extend the present road leading to the site of Echo Glen, the new juvenile home under construction.

• Jim North, who coached football at Mount Si High School for 18 years and is a member of the faculty, suffered a fractured nose, two black eyes, bruises, abrasions and a mild concussion from an automobile accident on the Yakima Freeway. He was enroute to a golf tournament at Sunnyside.

North was treated at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital and expects to be back at school next Monday.