Tug Hill sits southwest of Carthage and wrings the lake bands dry over this corner of Jefferson County, which is why winter here gets measured in feet rather than inches. Harper Valley Property Services LLC plows through those nights — driveways, walkways and entries opened between bands, then opened again when the next one comes over. In the warm half of the year the same properties get mowed, trimmed, edged and cleaned up, spring through leaf-fall. There is a plain kind of pride in a driveway that stayed passable through a storm nobody enjoyed. North country living asks for that, and this is the work that answers.