February in Fort Ann is the long part of the year, when Route 4 runs between snowbanks and the plow trucks know every driveway apron by feel. Duffy Boyz Property Maintenance LLC is out in it, plowing, shoveling walkways, salting the icy patch by the steps that catches everyone. Come April the same trucks trade blades for mowers and the season turns to cutting, trimming, edging and hauling off whatever winter left behind. Sitting where the Champlain Valley narrows into the Adirondack foothills, this town takes weather from two directions and plenty of it. Handling both halves of the year is simply what the job is here.