West Central Street carries Route 140 straight through Franklin, and every February it teaches the town the same lesson about freeze and thaw — wet at noon, slick by five. Freitas Landscape & Hardscape Inc works against that swing. Plowing driveways and lots, pushing back the ridge the street plow leaves across an apron, shoveling walkways and steps, and treating the surfaces that keep going hard again after dark. The blade does the fast part; the shovel and the spreader do the part people actually walk on. When a storm ends the aim is plain — a property that behaves as though it never snowed at all.