Jacob LaPerle, 15, has spent the summer working for the town road crew, hand-painting each of the village's 100 fire hydrants with a bright red coat. It's taken about 5 gallons of "fire-hydrant red" and a month and a half to get the job done. LaPerle was eager to point out that he was responsible only for the red coat; a second layer of paint on the top of each hydrant (either green or blue) denotes the water pressure for Randolph's fire fighters and is applied later on by Tony Delgado. (Herald / Tim Calabro)