With the Red Sox recently reporting for spring training, Jack LeDuc knows it's nearly time to come up with a new theme for his signature project: painting the annual Boston Marathon starting line.

PUT ART IN START ARE THESE CATCH BASINS WERE SORT OF THE ANCHOR FOR THE START LINE OR THE REFERENCE POINT. ALL THIS CURB IS NEW WHEN YOU GROW UP IN HOPKINTON LIKE JACQUES LEDUC AND SPENT 36 YEARS ...

HOPKINTON — Unlike their predecessor, two men used computer-generated stencils and a spray gun to paint the Boston Marathon starting line. On Wednesday, Bob Letendre and Will Belezos, foremen for ...

After 36 years, Jack LeDuc is retiring from his job as Boston Marathon's line painter. (submitted by DMSE Sports) As the 122nd Boston Marathon gets underway on Monday, there will be something ...

HOPKINTON — Jacques “Jack” LeDuc has seemingly done it all for the Boston Marathon. He painted the starting line each year for 36 years. He’s also a longtime race announcer, calling out the start of ...

HOPKINTON — Just as he has done every year since 1982, Jack LeDuc painted the starting line of the Boston Marathon last week, battling strong gusts of wind as he sprayed “Caution Blue” and “Caution ...

The Boston Marathon is under one month away. Runners rise to the occasion with training rituals, carb loading and pep talks.But the unicorn also rises. “This is on my to-do list every couple of days, ...

While several medical professionals lived and worked in town from the 1960s on, residents knew just one man as "Doc": Dr. Charles Bobeck, a dentist and volunteer who died Thursday at 82. "He loved the ...

Before his death at age 60 on Thursday, Nov. 4, Hopkinton native and lifelong bachelor Paul "Buzzy" Buswell gave relatives specific instructions for his funeral. Upon exiting the town's First ...