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No Time to Die is the swan song for Daniel Craig as James Bond, and this movie has lots of action and adventure. Many critics are saying this is Craig’s best, and also most sensitive, Bond. The movie begins with Bond having left active service and enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help. The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with d...
Heather Hiebert was sworn in as a Dayton City Councilmember on September 29 by Mayor Zac Weatherford. Hiebert was selected to fill the seat that was left open after Delphine Bailey resigned in August. Hiebert has lived in Dayton since 1978 and has operated a business for many years. She has served on the Planning Commission, and volunteers at the Dayton Senior Center....
Cry Macho (based on the book by N. Richard Nash) is directed and stars Clint Eastwood. Eastwood plays a one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder, who in 1978, takes a job to bring an ex-boss’s young son home and away from his alcoholic mom. Crossing rural Mexico on their back way to Texas, the unlikely pair faces an unexpectedly challenging journey, during which the world-weary horseman may find his own sense of redemption through teaching the boy what it means to be a good man. Some critics think Clint Eastwood is not the right lead f...
The 2021 global Manhattan Short Film Festival is coming to the Liberty Theater on Sept 24-26 and the 28th. This is the 24th year of this international annual film festival. The Liberty Theater in Dayton is one of 400 locations across the planet, showing this film festival for 11 days in late September. Dayton is the only location in eastern Washington to show this film festival more than one day (once in Spokane), and there are no showings in eastern Oregon. The selected ten finalist films vary...
Respect is an Aretha Franklin biopic starring Jennifer Hudson. It follows Aretha’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom. RESPECT is a remarkable true story of the music icon’s journey to find her voice. Rotten Tomatoes critics rate this film as 68% favorable, with the audience at 95%. It has a PG-13 rating for mature thematic content, strong language including racial epithets, violence, suggestive material, and smoking. The runtime is 144 minutes. This movie shows September 17-19 and 21...
Free Guy is an adventure-comedy. Ryan Reynolds plays a bank teller who discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game and decides to become the hero of his own story... one he rewrites himself. Now in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who saves his world his way before it is too late. Rotten Tomatoes critics consider this movie “frivolous fun” and rate this 82% “fresh” or favorable, while the audience reviews rate it 95% favorable. This movie shows September 10, 11, 12, and 14 on Fri. &...
DAYTON—Due to the increase in COVID-19 cases in our area, the Columbia County Rural Library District (CCRLD) will be switching to curbside-only service effective Thursday, September 2, 2021. The library and the Delany building will be closed to the public, but staff will still be available during normal business hours. Patrons wishing to check out materials are encouraged to place holds online or call the library directly. Holds placed by noon will be available for pick up the next business day. Please call to make an appointment to pick up you...
DAYTON—The use of facemasks for everyone five years of age and above at large events is reasonable and necessary in Columbia County to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission. Effective September 10, 2021 through September 12, 2021, all participants and spectators over five years of age must wear a face mask at all times while present at the Columbia County Fair. People exempt from this directive are people with a medical condition, mental health condition, developmental or cognitive condition, or a disability that prevents wearing a face c...
DAYTON—After closing the school’s doors to in-person learning on September 1, Dayton middle and high school’s remote learning has been extended through September 9. The district hopes to return to in-person learning on September 13. Elementary students will remain in in-person instruction. The announcement, made on the district’s website www.daytonsd.org, was made following a continued rise in COVID-19 cases in Columbia County. As of September 7, there were 33 active cases in the county. Public Health Administrator Martha Lanman told county...
A dramatic thriller directed by Academy Award winner Tom McCarthy and starring Matt Damon, Stillwater follows an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma who travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, Bill builds a new life for himself in France as he makes it his personal mission to exonerate his daughter. Rotten Tomatoes critics rate this as a 75% favorable, and the audience reviews are...
DAYTON—The Patit Valley Grange #1039 announced that they have awarded Alex Jenkins, a 2020 Dayton High School graduate, a $500.00 scholarship. Alex is attending the University of Idaho. His parents are Jeff and Dena Jenkins, of Dayton. His grandparents, also of Dayton, are Chuck and Sandy Dare....
This movie tells the true story of the Mighty Mites, the football team at a Fort Worth orphanage during the Great Depression. The team went from playing without shoes—or even a football—to playing in the Texas state championships. The architect of their success was Rusty Russell (Luke Wilson), a legendary high school coach who shocked his colleagues by giving up his privileged position to teach and coach at the orphanage. Few knew Rusty’s secret that he was an orphan. Recognizing that his scrawny players couldn’t beat the other teams with brawn...
DAYTON—The Port of Columbia has opened a new grant opportunity for start-up businesses in Columbia County. Through funding provided by Innovia, a private foundation that serves eastern Washington and northern Idaho, the Port of Columbia is offering micro-grants to start-up businesses. Grants up to $5,000 will be awarded to qualifying businesses upon review and recommendation by a local committee. Qualifications for applying include, but are not limited to: • Business Plan • Business License • Ability to have a business location physica...
Join fan favorites Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt for the adventure of a lifetime on Disney’s “Jungle Cruise,” a rollicking thrill-ride down the Amazon with wisecracking skipper Frank Wolff and intrepid researcher Dr. Lily Houghton. Lily travels from London, England, to the Amazon jungle and enlists Frank’s questionable services to guide her downriver on La Quila—his ramshackle-but-charming boat. Lily is determined to uncover an ancient tree with unparalleled healing abilities—possessing the power to change the future of medicine. Thrust on t...
DAYTON—Columbia Pulp is announcing the retirement of John Begley effective September 3. Begley has been CEO of Columbia Pulp since its inception and has led the company through its development, financing, design, construction, and start-up phases, including the time it was shuttered by the COVID 19 pandemic. “It has been an honor to be associated with this Company and the many people who were part of planning and building this enterprise,” said Begley. “Columbia Pulp is a game-changing technology and is now positioned to move on to the next ph...
DAYTON—Port of Columbia staff, along with private partner Columbia iConnect, made a presentation to the Community Economic Revitalization Board (CERB) on Thursday, July 14 in Olympia and left with a $2 million award. Acceptance of the $2 million grant is contingent upon the community providing $500,000 in matching funds. The Port applied for and received $20,000 from the Sherwood Trust, $15,000 from the Warren Community Fund, and $13,500 from the Dayton Columbia County Fund to use as matching funds, and has pledged $20,000 from their 2021 b...
DAYTON—The Green Ridge Fire, burning 30 miles East of Walla Walla, has burned a total of 11,449 acres as of August 3. According to a morning update, the fire is 15% contained. More than 380 personnel are working the scene. On Tuesday, fire crews focused on firing along the 46 Road that will connect the Edmiston Springs and Spangler Creek sections. Aircraft will be assisting ground resources with retardant and water-dropping runs to help minimize the potential for additional fire spread, working the strategy of anchor and flanking. It will be w...
Natasha Romanoff, aka Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), confronts her ledger’s darker parts when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises in this new Marvel Studios’ action-packed spy thriller. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger. Rotten Tomatoes critics rate this film as 81% favorable, and the audience gives it a 92%. It is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence/action, som...
DAYTON— Welcome to the Jam! NBA champion and global icon LeBron James goes on an epic adventure alongside timeless Tune Bugs Bunny in this animated/live-action event Space Jam: A New Legacy. This transformational journey is a manic mash-up of two worlds that reveals just how far some parents will go to connect with their kids. Basketball great LeBron and his young son Dom are trapped in digital space by an A.I. gone rogue. To get home, LeBron must lead Bugs, Lola Bunny, and the whole gang of notoriously undisciplined Looney Tunes characters t...
DAYTON—Anyone who wants to get a COVID-19 vaccine can now check out the county's new, easy-to-use, scheduling website: https://ccvaccines.as.me/. It is an easy-to-use, 3 step, an online questionnaire which allows you to schedule your own vaccination. Choose the date that is right for you and get vaccinated. Vaccination Clinic Addresses CCPH: Columbia County Public Health @ 112 N. 2nd St. Dayton, WA 99328 DSD: Dayton School District, Multi-Purpose Room @ 614 S 3rd St, Dayton, WA 99328*Vaccine v...
Queen Bees While her house undergoes repairs, fiercely independent senior Helen (Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn) moves into a nearby retirement community just temporarily. Once behind the doors of Pine Grove Senior Community, she encounters lusty widows, cutthroat bridge tournaments, and a hotbed of bullying “mean girls,” the likes of which she hasn’t experienced since high school, all of which leaves her yearning for the solitude of home. But somewhere between flower arranging and water aerobics, Helen discovers that it’s never too late to make...
DAYTON—F9 sends the “Fast” franchise more over the top than ever according to several reviewers, but this film is pure action and escapism. Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) is leading a quiet life off the grid with Letty and his son, little Brian, but they know that danger always lurks just over their peaceful horizon. This time, that threat will force Dom to confront the sins of his past if he’s going to save those he loves most. His crew joins together to stop a world-shattering plot led by the most skilled assassin and high-performance driver...
DAYTON-Foodstock & Vintage at the Station will be held at Blue Mountain Station in Dayton on July 17 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. "Foodstock is a wonderful family event that provides affordable entertainment for the public and supports our artisan food and beverage businesses," says Jennie Dickinson, Executive Director of the Port of Columbia. "We are really excited about the vintage vendor show this year and the great music line-up. We'll have shade canopies set up and a double water slide for the ki...
DAYTON—This is a joyous modern musical that celebrates Latino immigrant culture, heritage, and community. Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of Hamilton and the director of Crazy Rich Asians, Jon M. Chu, invites you to the event of the summer, where the streets are made of music and little dreams become big --- In the Heights. Lights up on Washington Heights --- The scent of a cafecito caliente hangs in the air just outside of the 181st Street subway stop, where a kaleidoscope of dreams rallies t...
Following the deadly events at home, the Abbott family (Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe) must now face the terrors of the outside world as they continue their fight for survival in silence. Forced to venture into the unknown, they quickly realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path. Rotten Tomatoes gives this film a 91% “fresh” or favorable rating, and the audience reviewers rate it as 93% favorable. Many on-line critics give this horror film high marks and note that they thi...
