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. 3, 1992

• The city of North Bend has reached an agreement with a real estate development company that could preserve approximately 400 acres of Meadowbrook Farm. North Bend and Snoqualmie officials hailed the action as a significant step toward preserving the Valley’s open spaces. Everything hinges on a biologist’s report that will tell the company whether or not it is feasible to develop on the land. The development company, Village Ventures Inc., has four months to find out.

• Snoqualmie Valley School District 410’s general fund budget for the 1992-93 school year is up 8 percent from last year’s budget and is set at approximately $19.4 million. “The things that are contained in the budget are realistic… they aren’t as scary as they were last year,” said the district’s business manager, Jeff Christensen. Last year the district undershot the budget by $150,000.

Thursday, Sept. 7, 1967

• Carnation’s Town Council adopted a new penal code Tuesday night, received a petition from 14 residents urging the eviction of a noisy neighbor, and announced plans to seek a radar rig for the Town Marshal to help trap speeders. Ted Schmidt voted “no” on the motion to adopt the new penal code because it contained prohibitions against gambling which Schmidt warned could “even ban dice boxes.”

• Future councilmen and mayors in North Bend will receive a modest remuneration for the time they spend at twice-a-month Town meetings. The council voted Tuesday night to make the Mayor’s compensation $20 per meeting, and councilmen’s pay $15 a meeting. Neither the councilmen nor the present mayor, John Buchanan, will receive pay during their current term of office.