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

Nov. 14, 1991

Chris Lodahl, will be North Bend’s next mayor, having won 65 percent of the vote to incumbent Fritz Ribary’s 35 percent in last week’s election. Lodahl, who has served two years of his four-year council term, will assume the mayor’s seat in early January. “I think people voted for me because they agreed with my platform,” commented Lodahl, who ran on the issues of open government, fiscal accountability, and well managed growth. “That hasn’t changed since the primary.”

City Administrator Kim Wilde has a balanced $3.3 million budget ready for 1992. A public hearing on the final draft will be held in Snoqualmie at 7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 25. At the head of the budget is the Snoqualmie Ridge Associates (SRA) expense fund, measuring in at $822,400. All revenues for the fund will come from the Weyerhaeuser Real Estate Co. partnership that plans to develop the newly annexed Lake Alice Plateau.

Nov. 17, 1966

Contracts were awarded Monday night at the meeting of the Town Council for the Snoqualmie Sewer System. Total cost of the project will be $735,000. With 22 contractors submitting bids on various portions of the contracts, on the recommendation of Gray and Cosborne, town engineers, contracts were awarded to the National Construction Co. of Seattle and G. R. Leischner Construction Co., also of Seattle.

Looking to the future, members of the Snoqualmie Valley School District No. 410 at a meeting Monday voted to purchase 15 and a half acres east of North Bend and abut half a mile south of Highway 10 on the Stilson Road for an elementary school site. The board said it would offer $1,500 an acre for the property, which is owned by Mr. and Mrs. Dick Barrett.