Every April the Kenduskeag Stream fills with paddlers running the whitewater down toward Bangor, and once the crowd goes home the village settles back into its quieter self and the grass starts. Murray Lawn and Landscape LLC picks it up from there — mowing the streamside yards and the ones along the old road through the village, mulching beds, keeping borders defined where lawn meets garden. The stream valley holds moisture, which means the grass here keeps growing well past when the ridges have gone dormant. Fall cleanups run late for the same reason, and the leaves come down thick along the water. A property left neat, edges clean and beds dark, is the sort of thing that makes a whole street look better.