Woodard Construction Co

About Woodard Construction Co

Winter comes into Arlington by way of the Batten Kill, which keeps running black and quick between banks that went white overnight. Woodard Construction Co works the hours before the village is awake, plowing dooryards off Route 7A, opening lots, cutting a clean shoulder where the drift wants to build. Walkways get shoveled down to the bare surface and sanded, so the first person out the door in the dark finds footing instead of guesswork. The valley sits narrow here, Green Mountains east and the Taconic hills west, and storms have a habit of stacking up between them; the whole job is staying a step ahead of that. There is a plain kind of pride in a driveway opened wide by sunrise, the tire tracks straight, the banks squared back and ready for whatever the next sky brings.