A tipster informed us this morning that Dan's Papers, the largest circulation weekly in the Hamptons, and brother and sister publications Hampton Style and Montauk Pioneer, were sold yesterday to Brown publishing. An announcement was expected this morning. The magazines had ben rumored to be on the block since early summer, but no deal was imminent. Plum Hamptons has more info.

UPDATE: A call to Dan's confirms the deal. Here's the press release.