During 2016, the state Legislature passed and Gov. Jerry Brown signed hundreds of new laws. While some were effective immediately and some will not go into effect until 2018 or 2019, most were effective Jan. 1, 2017. Below is a small sampling of the new laws and rules with which we have to comply….

Mark Dean of Pine Cove finished the 118th Boston Marathon in less than four hours. His actual time of 3:55:31 resulted in finishing 328 for his age group (60-64 years) for which there were more than 1,600 racers. The total number of entrants exceeded 35,000 and Dean finished in 16,832th place. His overall pace was…