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

Thursday, June 25, 1992

• The U.S. Small Business Administration recently presented family-owned Truck Town Inc., North Bend, with the SBA 1992 Region X Entrepreneurial Success Award. The award names Truck Town as one of the top 10 businesses in the nation recognized for growth and community contributions, and honors the company as the number one entrepreneurial success in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.

• The merge of North Bend and Snoqualmie Falls Chambers of Commerce is a concept that is acceptable to both parties but hasn’t yet been formally discussed or decided upon by North Bend. Members of the Snoqualmie Falls Chamber of Commerce recently voted to incorporate themselves with the North bend Chamber. Now it appears the Snoqualmie Chamber either jumped the gun or North Bend got cold feet.

Thursday, June 29, 1967

• Though it didn’t meet for that purpose, the Snoqualmie Town Council was able Monday night to give petitioners for a less dusty town a promise of relief. Mayor Roy Anderson said the town engineers had okayed oiling the streets, and that it would be done just as soon as weather allowed.

• Just in case anyone missed the news from Olympia this year, a higher tax goes into effect Saturday morning, July 1. the new retail sales tax is 4.5 percent, an increase from 4.2 percent, as established by legislature earlier this year.