February in Oxford has a trick to it: a bright afternoon melts the drifts along the fence lines, and by dusk the runoff has turned every apron and sidewalk to glass. Ashwood Services LLC reads that swing and answers it — clearing snow after a storm, then coming back with salt when the temperature drops out from under the day. Out toward Lakeville Lake the wind carries loose snow across open ground and fills a drive twice in one night, so the route gets run twice. Nothing about it is glamorous; it is steady scraping, stacking and treating until the pavement goes dark again. Cleared, salted, passable — that is what the township wakes up to.