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. 26, 1991

North Bend Mayor Fritz Ribary and City Councilor Chris Lodahl will square off in the general election for mayor in November. A third mayoral candidate, Hugh Bossier, was eliminated in last week’s primary. Leading the primary race was Lodahl, whose 184 votes represent nearly half of all cast. Ribary came in second with 140 votes, or 36 percent. Trailing was Bossier, whose 60 votes totaled just 16 percent of the ballots. Thirty-eight percent of North Bend’s registered voters went to the polls.

Nine Washington Supreme Court justices considered an appeal by the Friends of the Snoqualmie Valley last week in Olympia. The organization maintains that the Boundary Review Board was in error when it recommended annexation of 1,344 acres for the planned Snoqualmie Ridge development, and its appeal has reached the state’s highest court.

Thursday, Sept. 22, 1966

A preliminary budget of $216,309 was presented at the meeting of the North Bend Town Council Sept. 14. At the Oct. 3 meeting, the final budget will be adopted and the council will establish tax levies. North Bend’s assessed valuation rose from $1,373,156 last year to $1,516,266, an increase of $143,110. The increase in assessed valuation last year over 1964 was $79,541.

A stray bullet which entered the Paul Hargraves home on the Mount Si Road about 10 p.m. on Monday night missed the head of his son, Sandy, 16, by about four feet. The King County Sheriff’s office said the 30.06 caliber bullet entered through a window, penetrated wood paneling on the other side of the living room into a bedroom closet where it was found embedded in the wall on the opposite side of the closet.