Smith Excavating & Construction

About Smith Excavating & Construction

Winter takes hold of the West Branch valley at Renovo and stays: the mountains stand close on both sides, cold pools on the river flats, and snow that fell on Tuesday is still there in February. Smith Excavating & Construction plows through it — driveways, lanes, and lots in the borough and along the Route 120 stretch toward North Bend, opened while the town is still dark and the ridges are only a shade against the sky. Plowing, shoveling out walks, cutting the apron at the road so the township plow's own berm doesn't undo the morning. There is a fine moment at the end of a storm run when the headlights swing off a finished drive and the pavement shows black. Clinton County asks for that more nights than most places do, and it gets done.