Mr. Henry's musings on life - Happy Holidays from Mr. Henry

My human companion wanted me to be more like the humans for Christmas.

Why do I bother to listen to him?

So here is my wish for all of you.

  May you always find

joy, peace, love and honor

in all you do in life.  

Acknowledge the Perfect Love of our Creator in creating us,

and follow the path of his Son Jesus back to the garden.

Amen and Happy Holidays...

HuffPost Election Prediction November 8, 2016 - three Years ago or a Lifetime! One HuffPost article three weeks earlier predicted a stunning Trump upset!!!

POLITICS 

11/08/2016 08:22 am ET

HUFFPOLLSTER: It’s Finally Election Day, And Things Look Good For Democrats

Go vote, and then read on for poll-based projections and a look back at 2016.

By Natalie Jackson, Ariel Edwards-Levy, and Janie Velencia

HuffPost’s poll-based forecasts give Hillary Clinton the win and the Democrats a narrow Senate majority. Many Americans are going to be unhappy regardless of the outcome. And we take a look back at the campaign. This is HuffPollster for Tuesday, November 8, 2016.

POLL-BASED PROJECTIONS GIVE CLINTON THE WIN - HuffPollster: “The HuffPost presidential forecast model gives Democrat Hillary Clinton a 98.2 percent chance of winning the presidency. Republican Donald Trump has essentially no path to an Electoral College victory.

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What the HuffPost did not mention back then nor since the election was that there was a Trump victory forecast in the HuffPost, and not on election day but nineteen days BEFORE the election, published on October 19, 2016 in the HuffPost, almost a month before the actual vote.

At the time Trump was double-digits behind in the polls.

More remarkably, however, was the earlier story did not just project a win for Trump, but it gave a detailed timeline of how the vote would change throughout the day and night of the election in the form of bulletins, even forecasting the totals would stop changing in late evening and by the middle of the night the realization that Clinton actually would lose the election.

Well I was a HuffPost Contributor at the time and I wrote the story which can be found in the HuffPost archives.  Here is exactly what was published in the HuffPost on the election results three weeks before the election took place.

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Jim Putnam, Contributor

Publisher Coltons Point Times

Into the Future - Presidential Election Results November 8 and 9, 2016

10/19/2016 05:49 pm ET

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Into the Future - Presidential Election Results November 8 and 9, 2016

News Bulletin!

Dateline: Washington, D.C.

November 8, 2016 - 10:00 pm EST

Polls Close in East - Hillary Declared Winner

The polls just closed in the East while remaining open in the Midwest and West, but the mainstream media has already declared Hillary Clinton the 45th and first female in our nation’s history President.

Based on the results of Exit Polls throughout the country, most media declared Hillary the decisive winner. The Exit Polls are interviews with actual voters leaving the voting booths.

Unlike other political polls of which there are many, only one presidential Exit Poll exists and is taken. Since the poll is owned by a coalition of the major television networks, and it is not released in it’s entirety to the public, there is no way to validate or verify the results.

In spite of the tremendous media bias against Donald Trump and media devotion to Hillary Clinton, it still seems a bit odd the networks declared her the winner with just below 5% of the national vote cast and counted.

Over 50% of the public still has time to get out and vote. One might suspect there is media collusion in trying to discourage possible Trump supporters in these states to give up and not vote for Trump.

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News Bulletin!

Dateline: Washington, D.C.

November 9, 2016 - 1:00 am EST

Historic Hillary Victory a Tidal Wave claim Pundits

The polls have now closed in the continental United States as the nation and world await the results of the presidential election. So far just 22% of the popular vote has been reported.

Early absentee voting tallies indicate a record number of Americans cast their ballots before election day. Political pundits say it is another great sign for a Hillary landslide. “Banner headlines” in the major newspapers early editions, along with a never ending stream of “braking news” bulletins on television networks rejoice in the Clinton victory over Donald Trump, as projected by the media.

No results are official until certified by the election boards in each state. None have been certified yet and the national tracking map indicates no electoral votes have been awarded.

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News Bulletin!

Dateline: Washington, D.C.

November 9, 2016 - 5:00 am EST

Top of Form

Bottom of Form

The national media continues to tout the Exit Polls and a Hillary landslide but the release of actual vote totals is at an excruciatingly slow pace by the states.

Those votes reported to the media indicate a much closer race than the Exit Poll blowout projection. No pattern is emerging in voting other than a near dead heat in national vote total while the seven key swing states remain too close to predict at this time.

Could it be the national news media Exit Poll is wrong? Early indications suggest if the TV networks actually reported the results received in Exit interviews, the voters were giving misleading answers to the media.

Perhaps voters believe they have a right to keep silent when it comes to elections, an exercise of their right to privacy.

At the same time, there are reports of much higher new voter totals than expected, and the turnout among Independents and Republicans is up significantly.

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News Bulletin!

Dateline: Washington, D.C.

November 9, 2016 - 10:00 am EST

Clinton Landslide fails to Materialize - Exit Polls Wrong - but How Wrong?

A haunting silence has overcome the nation as Americans wake up and go to work expecting to hear from our new President Hillary Clinton. Instead, there is a heightened sense of anxiety on the part of those prematurely declaring Clinton the victor.

After late night calls for a Clinton victory celebration, her failure to pull away in the electoral count has stunned and silenced her Establishment friends.

While all seven key swing states hang perilously in the balance, the leader in popular votes swings wildly from Clinton to Trump and back like a pendulum on steroids.

Perhaps the Populist Revolution did not fade away as predicted by the Establishment and their news media. Maybe the election has nothing to do with Donald Trump but is a referendum on Clinton and the Establishment.

If proven true, it will be the greatest upset in election history far surpassing the Truman - Dewey race in 1948.

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News Bulletin!

Dateline: Washington, D.C.

November 9, 2016 - 6:00 pm EST

Populist Momentum Carries Trump to 270 electoral votes as America’s Version of the UK Brexit Vote Stuns the World

http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2016/10/into-future-presidential-election.html

  

         

Mr. Henry's musings on life - Happy Holidays from Mr. Henry

My human companion wanted me to be more like the humans for Christmas.

Why do I bother to listen to him?

So here is my wish for all of you.

  May you always find

joy, peace, love and honor

in all you do in life.  

Acknowledge the Perfect Love of our Creator in creating us,

and follow the path of his Son Jesus back to the garden.

Amen and Happy Holidays...

Thank you to CPT Readers for 12 years of tolerating and supporting us!

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 Without Readers there is no News and no challenge to find Truth.

For those of you who never heard of Coltons Point, Maryland, which is about 99% last check, I wanted to mention our town as part of a tribute to you.  From November of 2016 until October of 2017, a twelve-month period, the CPT broke through the ONE MILLION readers barrier with 1,003,681 according to Google statistics.

The latest count on readers since we started was over 3.5 million last time we checked.  However, one million in twelve months is not bad.  This only counts identifiable web sites and earlier statistical analysis showed there could be an additional 40% from unidentified readers.

What makes this interesting is that to this day we have never allow an advertisement to run in the newspaper, never collected a single email address to sell to the world, and we allow anonymous comments to protect the readers.

As for Coltons Point, it is a village of about 300 people on the banks of the Potomac River about ten miles from the Chesapeake Bay.  The Potomac is almost seven miles wide at this point.  Just offshore sits St. Clement’s Island, the third landing site for colonists to America after Jamestown and Plymouth Rock.

Here they landed in 1634, 384 years ago, but unlike the other landings, this area did not disappear into obscurity by the end of the 1600’s.  So today Coltons Point is the oldest continually occupied chartered community in the history of Colonial America.

It was the first territory in the world to guarantee religious freedom, the first landing of Catholics in America, the first Jesuits in America, and the only colonial settlement to never fight with the Native Americans.

The charter granted to the Calvert family by the King of England gave them all the land from Southern Maryland to Philadelphia, and nearly to New York City.  So vast were the holdings that the land for our nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., was given to the fledgling nation by the St. Clement’s manor owners.

Today it seems little has changed over time though we are just 60 miles from the nation’s capital.  We have no street lights, no stop lights, no schools, no government of any kind, no cops, no churches, no sidewalks, no sewers, no water, no road drainage, no mall, no fast food, no diners, no hotels, no EMS, no fire company, no gas stations, and no fiber optics.

Many Bald Eagles live in Coltons Point

Most cell phones do not work because the only cell phone tower several miles away was completed just a couple of years ago.  Our phone system was installed in the 1950’s.  For most of 400 years the people here were watermen harvesting the fresh oysters, crabs, eels, and fresh and saltwater fish since we are part of the Atlantic Ocean tidal basin with ocean tides and salt water mixing with the fresh water.

The Potomac River is seven miles wide and nearly 100 feet deep meaning it flows both directions at once during high tide.  Sharks, submarines, and aircraft carriers have passed by and British troops have captured this area a couple of times.  This is the area where John Wilkes Booth disappeared for a week after killing Lincoln and it is a place of miracles, mysteries, and survival.  From the riverbank you can see across to Virginia to the birthplace of George Washington and birthplace of Robert E. Lee.

In fact, you should read the articles I have written about the mysterious past of Coltons Point and St. Clement’s Island (links at end of this story).

Ironically, not a single reader of the Coltons Point Times comes from Coltons Point.  However, the thousands of readers do come from the USA, United Kingdom, France, Russia, China, India, Italy, Australia, Germany, Israel, Saudi Arabia, a total of over 100 countries of the world.

So, thank you and I hope you tell your friends about the Coltons Point Times somewhere in America because we do not allow advertising nor do we advertise.

Jim Putnam, Publisher

Google numbers for the recent twelve months.

Coltons Point Times Readers

November 2016
Pageviews: 39,590

December 2016
Pageviews: 31,076

January 2017
Pageviews: 122,125

February 2017
Pageviews: 87,047

March 2017
Pageviews: 114,094

April 2017
Pageviews: 88,289

May 2017
Pageviews: 100,146

June 2017
Pageviews: 119,442

July 2017
Pageviews: 52,623

August 2017
Pageviews: 93,873

September 2017
Pageviews: 99,862

October 2017
Pageviews: 55,514

Total 12 months                   1,003,681

(November – October)

       

Article links about Southern Maryland history.

Southern Maryland and St. Clements Island History

Histories Mysteries - Next King of England (Prince William) Shares St. Clements Manor, Maryland bloodline

http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2010/01/histories-mysteries-next-king-of.html

Histories Mysteries - The Voyage of the Ark and the Dove

http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2009/09/histories-mysteries-journey-of-ark-and.html

Histories Mysteries - The Landing at St. Clements Island in 1634

https://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2015/06/histories-mysteries-landing-at-st.html

St. Clements Island and Manor - Four Centuries of Interrupted History

http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2009/07/st-clements-island-and-manor-four.html

St. Clements Prehistory Part 1 American Colonial History

http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2009/08/st-clements-island-prehistory-part-1.html

St. Clements Prehistory Part 2 American Colonial History

http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2009/08/st-clements-island-prehistory-part-2.html

Scenes from Coltons Point

http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2009/03/scenes-from-coltons-point.html

The Miracle of St. Clements Island

http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2008/04/miracle-of-st-clements-island.html

Histories Mysteries - A Lighthearted View of the Pilgrims Progress in Coltons Point

http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2007/02/pilgrims-progress.html

CPT Monarch Factoid - King's Stuff Headlines

https://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2013/07/cpt-monarch-factoid-kings-stuff.html

Histories Mysteries - The Story of John Wilkes Booth, the Black Diamond, and St. Clement's Island

https://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2016/04/histories-mysteries-story-of-john.html

Histories Mysteries - St. Clements Island - Coltons Point - and the mysterious 7th District in Maryland

https://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2015/06/histories-mysteries-st-clements-island.html

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The Coltons Point Times - The Melchizedek Prophecy index

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The Melchizedek Prophecy index

(click on link)

Conversations with Melchizedek – More Weather Anomalies Coming

https://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2017/09/conversations-with-melchizedek-more_18.html

Conversations with Melchizedek – Did America just Witness a Modern-Day Miracle?

https://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2017/09/conversations-with-melchizedek-did.html

Conversations with Melchizedek - More Melchizedek Prophecy Comes True through Solar Flares

https://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2017/09/conversations-with-melchizedek-more.html

Conversations with Melchizedek - Mexico rocked by 8.1 Earthquake - Solar Flares threaten Earth - Are these manifestations of the Melchizedek Prophecy?

https://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2017/09/conversations-with-melchizedek-mexico.html

Conversations with Melchizedek – Where is the Truth in Weather reporting?

https://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2017/09/conversations-with-melchizedek-where-is.html

Conversations with Melchizedek – Natural Disasters Reclaim the World for Mother Earth

https://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2017/09/conversations-with-melchizedek-natural.html

Conversations with Melchizedek – Suppose Divine Intervention wiped out the Internet – could you survive?

https://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2017/08/conversations-with-melchizedek-suppose.html

Conversations with Melchizedek - Who is the mysterious Biblical person?

https://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2017/07/conversations-with-melchizedek-who-is.html

Conversations with Melchizedek - Earth's Weather Anomalies - Are there Dark Clouds on the Horizon?

https://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2017/07/earths-weather-anomalies-are-there-dark.html

Conversations with Melchizedek - Knowledge and Wisdom, what is the difference?

https://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2017/07/conversations-with-melchizedek.html

Conversations with Melchizedek - Time to Listen to Mother Earth - We are Running Out of Time

https://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2017/06/time-to-listen-to-mother-earth-we-are.html

Conversations with Melchizedek - The Ascension of Jesus of Nazareth

https://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2017/05/conversations-with-melchizedek.html

Conversations with Melchizedek - The Meaning of Lent and Holy Week

https://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2017/04/conservations-with-melchizedek-meaning.html

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Where in the World is Coltons Point and St. Clements Island?

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Cross and Light House - St. Clement's Island

First let me acknowledge my beloved publishing partners here at the Coltons Point Times.

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Mr. Henry - Fila Brasileiro, Brazilian Mastiff (Bloodhound) 

As for Coltons Point and St. Clements Island, it is a question I get occasionally and since there are so many new readers I want to address it. We are the only newspaper in the oldest continuously lived in chartered settlement in the colonial United States. Yes, older than Jamestown, older than Plymouth and older than St. Mary's City, places most people think of as the oldest. If you are not familiar with US history, the three places I mentioned all ceased to exist by the 1690's. That means we existed 142 years before our Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence and went to war with England.



St. Clements Island just offshore from Coltons Point was the landing site for 321 colonists on two tiny ships, the Ark and the Dove, in 1634 and the area has been lived in ever since. It is also the first place in the world with religious freedom as the first English charter guaranteed religious toleration. We are also the site of the first landing of Roman Catholics, first Mass performed in the colonies, first Jesuit priests and the first colony to live peacefully with the Native Americans. If that isn't enough we are the site where the first relic from the True Cross of Jesus came to America and miracles were performed with it.



While the original St. Clement's Manor land grant was huge, stretching all the way to Washington, DC, Philadelphia, and New York City, none of which existed at the time, the immediate area around Coltons Point is known as the 7th District.

For those of you not familiar with the 7th District in Southern Maryland I thought I would offer a little primer in the highly unlikely event you ever fall off the edge of the world and find yourself here. First of all it is one of the oldest landing points for the colonization of the original thirteen colonies way back in the early 1600's. St. Clements Island, the actual place where the English pilgrims landed, is just off Coltons Point where the pilgrims first saw the Indians and set foot in Maryland. These are the last two places on the map in the 7th District at the Potomac River.

Now I am not a pilgrim nor related to pilgrims but an awful lot of people here are and it seems that the older the family the more likely they inter-married with other families that have been around about 383 years, since 1634. That means when you meet a Dorsey, Bailey, Combs, McKay, and all the other names you see on signs down here you might just be meeting the relatives of all the prominent and aristocratic families.

The 7th District folks came here for religious and other freedom and for the last 383 years have been fighting anyone who tried to tame them. Long before the existence of New York City, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington, DC these folks had established rights to the 7th District. The early settlers were a combination of water men, farmers and tobacco farmers and starting in 1639 other people started trying to take this place away from them.

Nessie in Scotland

Bessie in Maryland

The local Native Americans never tried, I suspect they knew better, and this was about the only place in America where the settlers and Native Americans lived in harmony which tells you a lot about the people who settled as they respected the rights of the Natives. Since it was the only place in the New World that promised religious freedom a lot of other people wanted to stop them. The Puritans and a few other groups seemed to think they had the only connection to God.

So the locals fought off the other white men for about a hundred years before they joined the fight against the Brits as the concept of freedom just kept spreading. In a couple of wars the British actually attacked this area which goes to show military intelligence hasn't much changed after all these years. The 7th District eventually became the last frontier in Maryland which it remains to this day.

Along the way the Civil War was fought and being we were well south of the Mason Dixon line but still in Union controlled territory, the 7th District became one of the primary smuggling points for getting supplies and arms to the Confederates since the Union had blockaded all the southern ports. One Union officer said at night the Potomac River was filled with black painted boats sailing supplies across the river to the Confederates in Virginia.

Upcoming scandals we will be reporting on include the English and French support for the Confederate army that was channeled through this area and the fact the English backed John Wilkes Booth and was to pick him up here after the killing of President Lincoln. Of course there is also the disappearance of Booth for almost a week during the manhunt in the area of the 7th District.

Eventually the rest of Maryland got civilized and soon the election of governor in the state always seemed to be tied between the Baltimore Democrats and the Washington DC area Republicans and it was the band of outcasts down in the 7th District that decided many an election throughout the 20th century. I suspect this was the way the folks of the 7th District got even with the politicians. Many a person can recall seeing a candidate for governor from up north sneak into the District, spend a weekend sharing some moonshine with the old boys, and going home to win the election. In the 7th District the vote could be controlled as about everyone was a Catholic Democrat and they knew statewide elections were dependent on them for success.

We had our share of celebrities as well but they always seemed to live just across the water from the 7th District. From Coltons Point you could see where George Washington was born and where Robert E. Lee was born on the Virginia shore.

There is no local government nor local police in the entire 7th District as the people could never see the need for the bureaucrats. Most justice was handed out locally including disposal without the expense of trial or jail for anyone terrorizing the people. No crime wave lasted long.

Of course to this day there are no governments, street lights, stop lights, sidewalks, sewers, water pipes, gas lines or anything else found in most civilizations. The fire and emergency personnel are volunteers. About half of the roads planned for Coltons Point have never been built and you better check the goods in the local store for expiration dates before you buy anything.

People here still eat fish, oysters, crab and clams harvested from the river although the politicians up north have done about everything possible to destroy the environment. More than nine Bald Eagles share year round residence in the Point along with many a strange specimen that can be seen wandering out of the swamps and wetlands on dark and foggy nights.

There is a distinct social structure that has evolved over the centuries involving the Ancients, Water men, Yuppies, Yippies, Yappies, Come Downers and Come Backers.  Since there are no Native Americans left our version of the ancients are the hillbillies, moon shiners, deinstitutionalized head cases, religious zealots, and of course Confederates who run around singing "Don't give a damn what the Yankees say the South's gonna rise again."

The Water men are the raucous survivors of the original colonists, the fisher men, crab men, oyster men, clam men, eel men, (yes I said eels as in scary slithering things on the river bottom) and the people who supported them like the marinas, crab shacks, oyster and clam processing joints etc. There aren't many left and that is one of the enduring tragedies of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.

The Yuppies are the new rich who move here to get away from what they spent their lives working to get. Yippies are the younger generation now beyond youth but still trying to find their way through life with a soft spot for environmental issues, nature, birds and privacy. Yappies are Yuppies and Yippies with a big mouth who show up expecting to find all the laws of more civilized places like dog catchers, police and all the other conveniences of modern society.

The Come Downers are the city folk who discovered the quaint place along the river and made their way here to escape where they are from or to exploit the area for material gain which never seems to happen. Finally the Come Backers are the kids of the Ancient families who escaped long ago only to discover the rest of the world will never replace what they had here in the first place and eventually they find their way back home.

Down here the Postmaster knows everyone on a first name basis. The local bar doesn't want any more customers as that might put them in a higher tax bracket. There is no fast food, no place to eat period without driving about 10-20 miles, and little need to put on airs. It don't matter whether you are rich or poor, you all eat crabs, oysters and clams the same.

Now that is a little of what you find down here in the 7th District of Southern Maryland, ferocious defenders of individual freedom a lot of character from a lot of characters, a place steeped deep in history, a keen sense of fair play, a desire to help your neighbors no matter what their social status might be, a bit cynical when it comes to the promises of the government or elected officials, but people who will never turn their backs on people in need, unless, of course they deserve it.

Coltons Point is a quiet village of about 250 people on the Potomac River where it is seven miles wide, just before it reaches the Chesapeake. Bay. Though we are only 60 miles from Washington, DC there are no governments, no police, no traffic lights, no street lights, no sidewalks, no water, no sewer, no gas lines, no churches, no city hall, no fire department, no sirens, no bureaucrats of any kind and not much of anything in the way of commercial development. We value freedom and independence above all else. This year we celebrate our 384th anniversary.

None of that has anything to do with the Coltons Point Times (CPT) except I happen to live here. Before I found myself in Coltons Point I lived in Iowa, Arizona, Nebraska, California, Washington DC, Virginia, New Jersey and Kentucky. In addition I had worked several years in New York City and Nashville.



Perhaps that is why the CPT seems to cover a lot of national and international issues. It may also explain why an online newspaper in one of the smallest villages in the USA has up to 144,000 readers every month. The last time I checked we had readers from 96 different nations, all 50 states, and Washington, DC.

Our mission is to tell the truth, be an independent voice, share interesting material with our readers and help keep you informed with the inside information on government, politics, science, health, housing, music and a whole bunch of other stuff. When the world stage gets boring we offer a little history and local color that may be of interest. We want to keep the news makers from politicians to news media, Wall Street to the Middle East honest and that has been a lot of work lately.


You may have noticed we are about the last newspaper on the internet to NOT allow those frustrating ads, banners, pop ups, video ads and all the other things created to track and annoy you. We do not require you to register because you have enough people already spying on you. I encourage you to check through our online archives as many stories are updated over time such as the House of Rothschild, Wall Street, and policy issues like the collapse of our health care system, terrorism, culture, and many others.

Reader comments are encouraged and responses will be given if needed. You can even ask me to email you privately in your comment and I will not post your email for the world to see. I have responded in numerous languages although the translations might be a little rough.

Since we do not accept advertising or do our own advertising people find us through searches for issues and images as we often have pretty entertaining photos and cartoons with our stories. You can set up an RSS news feed to your home page to get the latest headlines on articles I post.


Word of mouth is our strongest means of exposure and we would greatly appreciate it if you would tell your friends, family and associates about us and give them the site. Most search engines like Google can easily locate us by searching for the Coltons Point Times or you can click on: http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/ to directly connect.


We appreciate having you in our family and hope you check in for the latest news often. Thank you.

Jim Putnam, Publisher