Following the re-election of State Senator Anthony Palumbo and the election of Tommy John Schiavoni to the Assembly, the South Fork will continue to be represented in Albany by both a Democrat and a Republican.

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.