The Saturday, Feb. 11, Beauty of Ice Sculpting Competition at Long Dock Park in Beacon has been canceled due to the lack of ice. If conditions permit, we'll hold the event next year.

You're still invited to the opening reception for Mill Street Loft's new exhibit, "Hudson River Waterfronts—Yesterday & Today," from 4 to 6 p.m. in Scenic Hudson's River Center.

We expected plenty of river ice in February, but this winter has been unusual. The National Climatic Data Center reports that New York's average temperature in December was the sixth warmest December in 117 years of record keeping. While definitive figures for the first month of 2012 have yet to be released, preliminary numbers suggest it will rank among New York's 15th warmest Januaries.