Jean Bolduc, Author at Chapelboro.com

This Just In: There’s Something Happening Here

Posted by Jean Bolduc | Jul 18, 2024 | Columns, This Just In, Town Square

This Just In – Childhood memories are not all hot chocolate and marshmallows and some of the more...

This Just In: The Eve of Distraction

Posted by Jean Bolduc | Jul 11, 2024 | Columns, This Just In, Town Square

This Just In – Distraction is a powerful tool. Ask any parent of a toddler. During a two -year-old’s meltdown in the grocery aisle, the creative parent might throw themselves on the floor, pretending to cry alongside the toddler.

This Just In: It’s Just Math

Posted by Jean Bolduc | Jul 4, 2024 | Columns, This Just In, Town Square

We are a week out from the most disastrous performance in the 64-year history of televised presidential debates. Jean Bolduc asks: now what?

This Just In: Up For Debate

Posted by Jean Bolduc | Jun 27, 2024 | Columns, This Just In, Town Square

This Just In – Tonight’s Presidential debate will be no ordinary event. It will be the closest thing to a WWE Smackdown/Rattlesnake Roundup that we’ll ever see.

This Just In: The Say Hey Kid

Posted by Jean Bolduc | Jun 20, 2024 | Columns, This Just In, Town Square

This Just In – At 93, the great Willie Mays has come to his end, leaving behind an enviable legacy of accomplishment and sheer decency that leaves baseball fans awestruck.

This Just In: My Nerdy Dad

Posted by Jean Bolduc | Jun 13, 2024 | Columns, This Just In, Town Square

This Just In – My late father was a man with a brilliant mind. His mathematical aptitude was … ridiculous. An MIT graduate, he was a life actuary, able to do calculations in his head that would give most of us a migraine to even consider.

This Just In: He Was There

Posted by Jean Bolduc | Jun 6, 2024 | Columns, This Just In, Town Square

This Just In – My father-in-law was a great American. His story is an ordinary one by some measures – not mine. It is a supremely American story.

This Just In: Be Brave. Be a Voter.

Posted by Jean Bolduc | May 30, 2024 | This Just In, Town Square

This Just In – We citizens have a lot of work to do. It’s not too early to start doing it. In...

This Just In: A Tree Falls in Hillsborough

Posted by Jean Bolduc | May 23, 2024 | Columns, This Just In, Town Square

This Just In – Earlier this week, a tree fell across Lawrence Road near Occoneechee golf club, and did some scary damage to the car on which it landed.