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Author: Dan Rattiner
This past spring, the Town of Palm Beach decided to consider becoming a sister city to Antigua Guate...
In early September, Iran announced its intention to buy 24 Russian fighter planes to help it moderni...
People have asked me why we no longer publish the “Hamptons Subway Newsletter” in Dan’s Papers...
I don’t know about you, but I am beginning to lose patience with online robots. They think they ar...
For many years, scientists and astronomers have been searching the heavens looking to see if there w...
A friend of mine voted early last Sunday. Here’s the story he told me about the early voting exper...
It’s been a long time coming, but finally after nearly five years of legal wrangling, there is clo...
Another item in the news I did not make up...
Two couples renting a home in the Hamptons for two we...
Dan offers a few strange or interesting Hamptons stories leftover from summer 2022.
SWIMMING POOL R...
My wife and I flew via JetBlue to Los Angeles to visit family last week. The trip out was uneventful...
Here I am at 2 a.m. writing this article seated in a chair at the desk inside John Steinbeck’s wat...
The Hamptons International Film Festival will be showing movies here from October 7 to October 16. T...
Next Wednesday’s meeting of the Hampton Town Board is going to be quite something. You should make...
If a member of The Bridge golf club in Bridgehampton, having failed to check his scheduled tee time,...
Women live longer than men. Everybody knows that. Why is up for grabs. They eat better. They take ca...
My home in East Hampton sits on a hillside across the street from four marinas. There’s lots of ac...
Back before the Hamptons became “The Hamptons,” I bought a house that had two bathrooms, three b...
This story first appeared in a 2001 edition of Dan's Papers
I have gotten into the habit, on Sund...
Cy Perchik died peacefully on June 14 at the age of 98 surrounded by his family. A longtime resident...