“I used to rescue bugs outside at recess,” laughs Ashley Makridakis. “Everyone else was playing tag and I was taking care of my own little ant farm. My sisters would see a spider and they’d be screaming,’Kill it!’ and I would be running over with my cup to save it and bring it outside.” …

There’s nothing easy about farming. Weather. Pests. Deer. Raccoons. Rabbits. There are vast numbers of things completely out of one’s control which threaten to make even a seasoned veteran of the fields raise the white flag of surrender. Yet there is truly nothing like a warm, vine-ripe tomato picked just before making a BLT…

“I’m kind of like a little kid.” This is how John Neuhauser, a fixture in Sudbury since he was indeed a little kid, describes this coming Saturday, April 19th. Some folks know John as Kim’s husband, or as Kaleigh’s and Brennan’s dad, or even as the coach that once taught their sons and daughters…

For Kaleigh Neuhauser, participation in the Boston Marathon runs in the family. “When I was young, my grandmother lived right on the course in Wellesley, around mile 14,” she says. “Every year, my cousins would come over, too, and we would make the Marathon a whole family excursion.” The Neuhausers, however, are not mere…