Manchester Township sits in the pines, where the soil is pale sugar sand and the pitch pines hold their needles above lawns all winter. American Outdoor Services LLC works both halves of the year here, mowing, trimming, edging and cleaning up from the first warm week of April, then plowing, shoveling and salting once the cold settles into the Barrens and stays a while. Sand drains fast, so summer lawns want steady attention; that same sand means a driveway comes clean quickly under a blade if someone gets to it early. Between Whiting, Ridgeway and the neighborhoods off Route 70 the route runs long, and the standard at the end of it does not change. Manchester Township, Lakehurst, Toms River and Jackson.