Early Wednesday, when Grindstone Coffee & Donuts in East Hampton Village opened, The Associated Press had called the swing state Wisconsin for Trump, putting him at 276 electoral votes. Reaction at the coffee shop, in this blue corner of red Suffolk County, which voted overwhelmingly for Trump, was less surprise and more resignation.
Even though the East Hampton Town attorney said last month that the town could not entertain other offers on the 97-acre Wainscott property leased by the Maidstone Gun Club, a new suitor emerged on Saturday, this one with a proposal to develop a portion of the lot into privately owned affordable housing.
In East Hampton Town, Councilman Ian Calder-Piedmonte won a special election to serve another year on the town board, and voters overwhelmingly approved a proposition that will allow the town to remove the property sometimes called the Sherrill Triangle from its list of nature preserves so that it can be used for future road improvements.
There was audible muttering at Monday night’s meeting of the Montauk Citizens Advisory Committee when East Hampton Town Councilman David Lys presented a draft proposal to fix drainage and traffic issues at the complicated five-way intersection of Second House Road, Industrial Road, North Shore Road, and Midland Road, all near Fort Pond.
