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

Thurs., June 28, 1990

• There will be more old-growth forest stands set aside in the Northwest as a result of Friday’s listing of the spotted owl as a “threatened” species. Local sources believe the effect will not be devastating in the Valley. Very little of the harvesting done by local loggers involves the “ancient forest,” because there is little left in this part of the state.

• Dedication ceremonies for the Farm Shed project will take place June 29 at the Snoqualmie Valley Historical Museum grounds. This ribbon-cutting marks the completion of some 10 years of planning and construction of an addition to the original Farm Shed, more than tripling its size. The construction was the museum’s centennial project and it will be a lasting legacy of the 1989 centennial in our valley.

• State and federal wildlife biologists have located a second gray wolf den in Washington while conducting a howling survey in the Okanogan National Forest. They heard responses from two gray wolf pups June 18.

Thurs., July 1, 1965

• Mrs. Mary Brickey and her daughter, Jan, 9, representing the NW Sled Dog Association, won honors in the cart races at Taft, Ore., June 20. While snow is generally essential for sled dog racing, any “musher” can tell you wheels are used to train the dogs, so a cart is not too far afield.

• Michael K Berkebile, 20, of North Bend, received lacerations above the eye when he was in a one-car accident one-half mile east of Snoqualmie on the Stone Quarry Road June 26. Trooper Leaf reports Berkebile was westbound at high speed when he went around a curve in a broadside skid, left the road and crossed the railroad tracks, striking a sign, then traveled back across the road and hit a stump. Damage to his ‘55 Ford coach was estimated at $250.