The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

* It was 20th-century American author and college professor David Foster Wallace who made the following sage observation: “There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some diehard’s vote.”

* Those who study such things say that many ancient Greeks carried coins in their mouths -- clothing of the time lacked pockets, you see.

* In late 19-century America, parts of New England had a rather unusual Halloween tradition. Evidently, in many rural communities, boys would celebrate by throwing cabbage, corn an...