On a July evening the shade in Luverne's older blocks stretches all the way across the street, and the sound of the last mower of the day carries three houses down. Luverne Lawn Care tends those yards — mowing week to week, string trimming, crisp edges along drives and walks, and cleanups at either end of the season — then comes back in winter to plow, open walkways and keep ice off the steps. A lawn cut on a schedule looks different from one cut when somebody remembers; the color evens out, the lines lie flat, the whole block reads as tended. Come January those same driveways get opened while it is still dark out. It is one job with two faces, and both of them belong to this town.