Winter mornings in New Richmond start with fog off the Ohio, a soft grey ceiling sitting on the water while the streets climbing away from the river go slick and white. A.J.'s Lawn Service is out ahead of it, plowing drives, clearing walks down to bare pavement, and spreading salt on the grades where a river town makes everything steeper than it looks. In the green months those same routes turn to mowing, trimming, and edging, and autumn brings leaf cleanup off yards that back up against the bluff woods. Coming home to a drive already opened to the concrete is a small mercy, and it is the whole point of the work. From the river road up into the streets above town, both halves of the Clermont County year get handled.