January in Chester starts in the dark, with the clapboard storefronts along Main Street still shuttered and the crossroads of Route 24 and Route 206 lit only by a plow's own beams. Carrera's Landscaping & Home is out in it, opening driveways and walkways and working salt across the aprons so the first car of the morning can simply leave. Come April the same properties get the other half of the year: mowing, edging, trimming, and the cleanups that let a yard breathe again. Chester sits high enough that snow arrives a shade earlier and lingers a beat longer than it does down the hills, which is its own kind of scheduling. Either season, the measure holds steady — a clear surface, a green lawn, and a household that never has to think about it.