A nor'easter finds Holyoke's high ground first — wind comes over Anniversary Hill and the snow goes sideways past the streetlights hours before the valley fills in. Lashco Tree Service LLC runs the storm from that end: plowing driveways and parking areas, shoveling stairs and doorways, sanding and salting once the pavement is bare. A long storm means going around twice, because what was cleared at midnight is gone again by four. There is a particular quiet to a finished route at first light, every drive open and nobody stuck behind a bank. Holyoke asks for that a dozen times a winter.