The long Martin Luther King Jr. weekend was a competitive one for Spring School students who swim for the East Hampton Hurricanes.

Scenes from yet another winter storm, from a cold plunge in Gardiner's Bay to a hardware store keeping people in shovels and salt to the highway departments working around the clock to clear the roads.

Twenty or so monks from a monastery in Texas are making their way to Washington, D.C., on a mission of compassion, while locally a class on the Buddhist path to world peace will be held in Water Mill.

Coordinated vigils for what organizers call victims of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement will happen across the East End on Friday at 6 p.m. and in Riverhead on Saturday at 10 a.m., with local events scheduled in East Hampton Village and Sag Harbor.