PLOW POWER, and GRAVITY: With frozen snow crystals mixing together with liquid rain and warm temperatures the night of January 14 into the 15th, plow trucks and sidewalk brushers (not to mention shovelers) were busy throughout the Stanley-Boyd area last Friday morning, while the roof of an old farm building continued to lose its war with gravity along the north side of County X between Stanley and Boyd. Clockwise from top left: Bob LaMarche of the Boyd Streets Department plows Boundary Road on the southeast corner as a semi goes by in the distance on Highway 29; Jim Nelson brushes slush and mush off the sidewalk at Sunset Homes as a fill-in for Tom Thornton; Loren Gulcynski of the Town of Thorp plows on Copenhaver Avenue before turning down Center Road. The grader has arrived, but this wasn’t a job for it apparently, given the need for sand distribution; and an old farm building on a cell tower plot along Highway X between Boyd and Stanley continues to lose against gravity and the Second Law of Thermodynamics. As recently as the Great Snows of 2019, nothing but a small dent could be seen in the featured roof–not anymore! Off camera, a south-facing barn wall continues to cave in as curved space (gravity) and increasing randomness (entropy) continue their relentless work. Finally below, a fenced-off open water aerator at Chapman Lake makes for a ‘no-go’ zone with the mild winter temperatures–cold ones too. Staff photos.