On summer nights downtown you can hear the ballpark from a few streets over — an announcer, a crowd, the sound carrying the way it does across a small city on a warm evening. SPS Lawn Services spends those days ahead of the crowd, mowing and trimming while the grass is dry and the streets are still quiet. Come December the schedule flips: trucks out early, drives opened, walks cleared so people can get where they are going without picking their steps. The satisfaction is the same either way — a place made ready before anyone arrives to use it. Mowing, trimming, edging and cleanups in season, snow plowing and walk clearing in winter, throughout Utica.