Late in the day the sun comes straight down Main Street in Hackettstown and turns the brick storefronts a warm amber that lasts about twenty minutes. Dragon Landscaping LV is often loading up right then, mower ramped, trimmer still ticking as it cools, the last strip of grass along a shop walk cut square. Town work here is a game of small lots and narrow verges — the kind of ground where a machine's width matters and the finish shows from the sidewalk. Mowing, trimming, mulching and cleanups are the whole vocabulary, repeated until a yard simply looks right. There is something steadying about a street where every green edge lines up.