Marquette starts moving early — plow trucks, school buses, the first shift heading out to the yards — and none of it happens if the lots are still buried. Smith Construction Inc clears that ground ahead of the day: plowing drives and aprons, opening walks and entries, treating ice where trucks turn and where people step down. Snow that has to be pushed a long way needs a plan, and the plan starts with where the first pile goes in November. Wide asphalt swept back to its painted lines is a quiet sort of accomplishment, but it holds up the whole morning behind it. That is the work, all winter, in a town that gets a great deal of winter.