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The day after Thanksgiving 2025, workers from the KPVillas landscaping contractor installed snow sticks demarcating cement from lawn. The stakes arrived just in time. Stakes mark the edge of a driveway. By Sunday morning, homeowners were waking to a heavy fallen snow that the crew from New Generation had started to clear overnight. Sidewalks and some space in front of garage doors were shoveled by hand. Before sunrise, a plow cleared a single lane for early traffic and eme

"The 2nd and final fall clean up will be after Thanksgiving," wrote President Sandy S. in a Nov. 21 email. "This will include trimming of flowering plants & perennials, leaf blowing gutters, leaf clean up, and taking any small sticks that are by the driveway that were blown down by the snow storm." The clearing of tree debris pauses in the winter. Per Sandy, "After this clean up, please note that there will be no more stick pick up from storm damage until spring . If you r

Autumn became winter overnight, and the landscaping contractor serving KPVillas rapidly transitioned with it. On a sunny November 6, 2025, a line of leaf blowers was wending through the yards. A few days later, on the night of November 9, a heavy snowfall descended on the neighborhood. By sunrise, the streets, driveways, and walkways had been well cleared by New Generation Landscaping and Lawn Care. Unsurprisingly, deep and heavy snow thrown by plows knocked over some mailb

A new maple tree replaced the KPVA maple tree removed in October 2024. With guidance from and installation by McKinley Garden Center ...

Mulch is down, as New Generation Landscaping and Lawn distributed the large pile delivered to the Adams Rd. gate . The same day, a...

Spring clean-up continues as contractor crews clear landscaping beds of leaves. Already sticks have been picked up by hand, and mulch...

Mauer Well Service will be drilling a new well on the Huntington Lane island to service the common area. Utility crews have been marking...

Mulch and snow announced the first day of Spring 2025. A semi-truck delivered another dump trailer full of mulch inside the Adams Road...

Like a wave rolling through the neighborhood, the New Generation Landscaping and Lawn crew made its final leaf pickup for 2024. When...

Sounds on the rooftop signal the end of the season as New Generation Landscaping and Lawn blows leaves out the eaves and gutters. Again...

The native seed mix is in the ground around a portion of the KPVA retention pond . Volunteers seeded Section 1 (green) along the south...

A native BioSwale/Raingarden Seed Mix  from Native Connections in Kalamazoo, MI, is tailored for restoration jobs like the KPVA...

Having removed weeds and invasives from the south berm of the KPVA retention, volunteers will broadcast a native seed mix in November...

Improvements around the KPVA retention pond continue as homeowners clear weeds, invasive plants , and stumps from within the extant...

In preparing an estimate for removing remaining invasives and renovating the perimeter of the the KPVA retention pond  with native...

Fall clean-up was in full swing as November opened, with the New Generations crew cleaning landscaping beds, trimming bushes, and hauling...

A perilous tree was removed from the KPVA parcel containing the retention pond. Earlier in 2024 a major branch fell , revealing the...

An interim solution has reinforced the berm of the KPVA retention pond at the spillover to the St. Joseph County (SJC) retention pond. ...

With fall trimming to occur soon, it's time to mark special trimming if you had opted for it in the spring. In an email on October 14,...