October comes on slowly in the village, the maples around Mesier Park turning by degrees and the old green covered again by Friday no matter what you did on Tuesday. Bettina's Landscaping moves through those weeks with leaf cleanups, mowing and edging, giving a narrow village lot the same attention a wide lawn gets. Winter shrinks the job down to the width of a shovel — the front walk, the steps, the strip of sidewalk that has to be passable before the buses run. Snow gets plowed and pushed where it will not block the sight line to the road. That work gets done for Wappinger, Wappingers Falls and the towns around them.