Athens keeps its old brick storefronts around the square, and on a wet March morning the whole town smells like thawing ground and Salt Creek running full. JAR Landscaping LLC covers the yards and drives on that north side through both halves of the year: mowing, trimming and edging in the warm months, plowing and shoveling and salting when the weather turns over. Menard County winters come in fast off the prairie and leave the side streets narrow; spring makes up for it with grass that seems to grow while you watch. Either way the aim is the same — a drive cleared before the first errand of the day, a lawn brought back into shape before the weekend.