By the third week of December the light in Warren is gone before five, and every cleared walk on the block shows up as a dark ribbon under the porch lamps. Snow Scholars works that early dark — plowing drives, shoveling steps and walkways, salting the places where a thin glaze does more harm than a foot of powder. Snow removal is the only line here, and the whole of the job is access: getting out in the morning, getting in at night, on your own two feet. It is a small thing to sweep a set of steps down to bare concrete, and it is not a small thing at all. Warren winters run long enough to prove it.