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

Thurs., May 10, 1990

•The first few of 66 planned outlet shops are expected to open this week at North Bend’s South Fork Interchange. Property owner Dick Zemp expected  600 jobs and $44 million in gross annual sales at the Great Northwest Factory Stores.

• Five seventh-graders from Snoqualmie Middle School earned honors in this year’s Johns Hopkins University CYT Talent Search, Eric Long, Nathan Bahnson, Christina Rappin, Ryan Hurd and Erin Hendrickson. The search seeks to identify students who reason extremely well mathematically and verbally.

Thurs., May 12, 1965

• For the first time since World War II, women are working at Weyerhaeuser’s Snoqualmie Falls mill. Mrs. James (Olive) Lingle was among the first women to go to work in the plywood plant on April 18.

• The Carnation Fire Department responded to an early morning alarm May 4, at the James Shea farm on the West River Road where a large barn was destroyed and a milking parlor was badly damaged. There were no animals involved.