On an August evening along Lakeside Boulevard, every lawn between the road and the water is on display, and Lakeside Landscaping LLC likes them cut for it — even, edged, trimmed close to the retaining walls and the steps. Five months later those same addresses want a plow and a shovel, drives opened early enough that the hill down to the lake stays a route rather than a problem. Hopatcong asks both jobs of one property, one after the other, year on year. Working the shoreline streets means knowing where snow piles can go and where a mower simply will not fit. It is a town worth doing carefully.