In Clinton the South Branch of the Raritan drops over the dam in the middle of town, loud all year, and the two old stone mills stand on either bank listening to it. Ragozine's Landscaping works the streets that climb away from that water — mowing, edging and trimming through the green months, then clearing and salting those same driveways once the sky goes white above the ridge. There is a particular pleasure in a lawn cut with the line held straight to the walk, and another in a driveway opened while the porch light is still the only light on the block. Storms reach Hunterdon over the hills with the wind already in them, so the work is to be out ahead of the morning. Spring cleanups, summer mowing and winter plowing across Clinton and the towns that ring it.