North of downtown, Waterville sits along the Naugatuck where the valley narrows and the river runs beside the road most of the way to Thomaston. JH Landscape & Property Service LLC keeps lawns and grounds in that corridor tidy week after week — mowing, trimming, edging drives and walkways, cleanups to open and close the season. Properties up here run long and odd-shaped, banked against the hill or stretched toward the water, and each one gets cut to suit its own ground. The measure of a job is what it looks like from the street once the truck pulls away. Clean lines, clear pavement, nothing left behind.