February in Hightstown is a run of small negotiations — a thaw, a refreeze, a gray afternoon that drops three inches after dark. Skinner Construction, LLC plows and shovels through all of it, taking driveways down to the surface, opening walkways, and salting the patches that turn to glass overnight. When the ground finally softens, those same properties want mowing, trimming and edging, and a spring cleanup to pull the winter's wreckage out of the beds. Leaf removal closes the year back out. It is steady, unshowy work on ordinary streets, and the measure of it is whether anyone has to think about their own driveway at all.