DAN'S PAPERS, February 19, 2010 Page 24 www.danshamptons.com
Whaddaya Want?
In their immediate vicinity, they want no thocking sound of tennis balls coming from neighbors, they want neighbors to have no weddings nor other celebrations, they want fewer cars on the road, except they want a wide assortment of cars for themselves, and they definitely want no clucking or mooing. At a meeting in East Hampton, where people were complaining about a new proposed cell phone tower in the woods of the girl scout camp in Three Mile Harbor, many of the protesters were on their own cell phones. “We want to improve our service,” said the man from Verizon Wireless. Verizon has proposed constructing a 100-foot tower. The local authorities said it should be no higher than 50 feet. Verizon Wireless said they could do 60 feet, so long as it’s above the canopy of the trees. The local authorities said they wanted it 50 feet and, whether or not that was high enough to get above the treetop canopy, that was it. “It’s a bit too hilly for 50 feet,” the man from Verizon said. “When you drive up Three Mile Harbor, we don’t want the first thing you see to be a cell phone tower,” said one concerned citizen. In Sagaponack, the Concerned Citizens of Sagaponack sent out a letter to all 600 people who have post offices in that community this week, telling them that a “non-historic home” is just about to be moved to an 11-acre farm site which is, in fact, the site of the last vista of open space between Hedges Lane and the Atlantic Ocean. Sagaponack Village says that it will be “off to one side,” and 15 other acres have been
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saved. About 500 of the 600 residents of Sagaponack are people who moved here in the last 40 years from the City, who once said, “Oh, look at all that wonderful open space over the potato fields down to the sea!” and then built homes blocking that very view. Many have hedges around them to make the view even worse. Some are even on Hedges Lane, named after an old farming family with the last name Hedges. As for Talmage, that’s an old East Hampton farming family name. Recently, the saving of the “Talmage Farm” in Springs occurred, thanks to government money. I suppose Ms. Russo will complain mightily if a farm stand is built on that field. But maybe not. Somewhere out here, there has to be somebody with a brain.
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It is now February, heading toward March. The Hults matter about town finances has not even been scheduled and there is no grand jury indictment. The Kabot matter was postponed until just after her re-election bid. She was swept from office. Then it was postponed again. And now it has been postponed for a third time. Former Mayor Motz’s sentencing was postponed until after the holidays, then in January until two weeks ago, and now has been postponed yet again. What is it about these postponements? Personnel cutbacks in the courts? Paperwork? Somebody didn’t do something and everybody is embarrassed? Perhaps it’s just the thinking that, the further down the road we go from when the charge was made, the less it matters, the more it costs the court system, and so the less the prosecution’s efforts get. I mean, what happened was such a long time ago. What’s the big deal?
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decided to purchase a house just for all future Marketing Directors. He located a house nearby to our Hampton Bays central office for sale for $295,000, signed a contract for it, and then found that the only mortgage he could get from a bank for it would be at 27 3/4% interest, 15 years, with a $10,000 signing fee, a $10,000 activation fee, a $10,000 bookkeeping fee and a $10,000 just-because-we-feel-like-it fee. Furthermore, the total offered for the mortgage would just be $35,000. The President of the bank said the Commissioner should understand these were difficult times. Our Comissioner is looking elsewhere. And meanwhile, we are putting on hold the hiring of a new marketing director. Of course if people want to volunteer to do the job just call our Comissioner. “I was surprised my longtime banker friend offered such stiff terms for a loan,” the Commissioner said. “I had just read that he had received a $9 million bonus over the holidays and so thought he might be in a better mood.” COMMISSIONER ASPINALL’S MESSAGE It’s been a tough week here at Hampton Subway. For some reason we have not been able to get to the bottom of, the recent snowstorms have slowed down the subway service. Since all the tracks are underground it makes no sense. We’re working on it. Meanwhile, I’m off to Honolulu for a much needed rest and to look at the transportation system in that city. I’m always looking to make Hampton Subway better, no matter where I am.
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