By late December the ball fields at Michael J. Tighe Park sit white and empty, and the only tracks across them belong to the wind. G & O Landscaping Tree service spends those weeks on the surfaces that cannot be left alone — driveways, lots, aprons and walkways that have to be open before the first car turns in. Snow in this part of Monmouth County is often heavy and wet, the kind that comes down fast and sets up faster, so timing matters as much as equipment. Plowing back to pavement, stacking the piles where they will not block a sightline, salting what stays shaded — those choices are the whole job. Then it goes quiet again, and the town gets on with its day.