North of the river, Frenchtown's streets run from N. Dixie Highway all the way down to the water at Detroit Beach and Woodland Beach, where the wind off Lake Erie carries snow sideways across the pavement. Frenchtown Charter Township handles snow removal across that ground — plowing roads open, clearing lots and walkways, laying salt where the ice sets up hardest. Lakeside winter is its own animal: what falls is only half of it, and the rest is whatever the wind decides to bring back. The measure of a good night is a township that can get to work in the morning without thinking twice about it. It is public work, done in the dark, for neighbors.