[caption id="attachment_567" align="alignleft" width="300"] "Before" view of side of town hall[/caption] On December 2, 2017, Robert Cunniff, Christine Harris, and JoAnn Robinson, members of the Friends of the Robbins Town Gardens; Master Gardeners, Emily Snyder and Diane Geis , Stephan Miller of the Arlington Garden Club; and Mona McKindley, historic arborist, worked to prepare a portion of the garden for spring planting. [caption id="attachment_566" align="alignright" width="300"] "After" view of side of town hall[/caption] For four hours they pruned, raked and sawed. They removed invasive vines, reduced the size of overgrown shrubs, and cut down dead and diseased trees. [caption id="attachment_562" align="alignleft" width="300"] Mona trims the Cherry Tree branches[/caption] While a few trees still remain to be pruned or cut down, the area at the side of town hall is…