Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
Tahir Mahmood of Amsterdam uses a scraper to remove ice from the rear window of his car in the driveway of his home on Wednesday. With more than a month to go before the calendar reads spring, local highway departments are finding road salt in short supply.
