By mid-August the heat sits on New Milford like a hand, and the only good hours are early, before the borough's streets take the full sun. Velazquez Landscaping LLC works those early hours — mowing, string trimming the fence lines, edging where lawn meets sidewalk, blowing the walks clean so nothing is left behind but the smell of it. Hedges get shaped, beds get weeded, and the yards along the flat blocks near the river keep their shape straight through the dog days. In spring and fall the work changes to cleanups, beds opened up in April and put down in November. A lawn kept every week never has a bad week.