January on Anchor Bay: the ice runs out for miles with shanties dotted across it, and the cold comes off that white plain into Chesterfield Township with nothing to stop it. santa shop 67 plows through it — driveways, walkways, and the packed ridge the road crew leaves behind at the end of every approach. Mornings start in the dark and finish when the last route is open and the neighborhood can get itself to work. There is a real gladness in that moment: headlights sweeping clear pavement, banks stacked square at the edges. Snow removal, all winter long, wherever the storms come down on this township.