A-Plus, Inc.

About A-Plus, Inc.

Ice forms first along Coffee Creek, in the low wet ground east of downtown, long before it ever touches a Chesterton driveway. A-Plus, Inc. treats that as the tell: when the creek locks up, the crews load salt and drop blades. Downtown storefronts along the brick blocks get their sidewalks scraped clear before the first customers come in from the cold, driveways out toward Dune Acres get plowed while the sand ridges still hold last night's wind pattern, and lots get pushed to the edges so cars aren't hunting for a space in six inches of new snow. Porter County winters arrive in waves off Lake Michigan, sometimes three storms in a week, and each one gets the same answer: clear it, salt it, be ready for the next one. By the time the sun actually clears the tree line, the town looks like the storm never happened.