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Rediscovering the individual charms of Laurel, Jamesport, Cutchogue, Mattituck, Southold, East Marion, and Orient was a most pleasant surprise, because the more things change, the more they remain the same.

"Our autumn festival marks another pleasing season to experience Montauk's natural treasures, restaurants, hotels and shops," Laraine Creegan explained.

If you've been meaning to take your four-legged family member on more outdoor strolls, October will bring several pet focused East End benefit walks.

"Dogs first came to Southampton 12,000 years ago along with Paleo-Indian tribes," Tom Edmonds noted. "The Southampton History Museum is celebrating this tradition with games, refreshments, kids in Halloween costumes, dog agility test and a pet adoption bus presented by the Southampton Animal Shelter."

"We are working with Stony Brook Southampton Hospital to create an area of the emergency room that can provide privacy for families and patients in crisis and provide access to an on-staff psychologist within the emergency room," Tyler's mother, Valinda Valcich relayed.

As the sunlight in the day grows shorter, I become more thankful for my daily trips to the gym.

"We're just thrilled at how we built such a great foundation here on the East End that we are now getting requests from all over Long Island and other places to bring empowerment through the sport of triathlon out into to the world," Roden told us.

"I really love what I do and will keep doing it for as long as possible," he told Hamptons.com.

As one of last year's participants put it, "The trivia stops got us to go places that we had never been to before, which we enjoyed."

"A lot of people don't realize it's only one species and all those names that you hear are really just kind of trademark names," Dunne said about the East Coast oyster.