Williams College ranked 3rd in New England Wrestling -- 8 Eph Individuals ranked

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With a month to go before the New England Collegiate Conference Wrestling Association Championships, February 23-24 at Southern Maine, the Williams wrestling team is hitting its stride. The Williams team is ranked third in the region.

For the first time this season the Ephs have eight wrestlers ranked among the top six performers in each weight class in the region. Last week the Eph's had six wrestlers ranked.

Four Ephs are ranked second: junior Ethan Cohen (125), first year Corey Paulish (133), senior Nic Miragliuolo (149) who moved up from third a week ago and Kyle Ayer at 197.

Two Ephs are ranked third and two are ranked fifth. Notching third place rankings are sophomores Dylan Rittenburg (141) and Carl Breitenstein (157), while senior Doug Washington returned from injury to climb back into the rankings in fifth place at 165 and sophomore Nate Shippee, also 5th (184).
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Williamstown Planning Board Narrowing in on Subdivision Bylaw Changes

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Planning Board late last month discussed specific features of what it plans to pass as a new subdivision control bylaw this year.
 
The board long has discussed the complex set of regulations as being out of date and cumbersome to both potential developers and the board itself, which has needed to hear requests for waivers of outdated rules for the handful of residential subdivisions that have been proposed in town in recent years.
 
This spring, the town engaged consultants from Northampton's Dodson and Flinker Landscape Architecture and Planning to go through the existing bylaw, compare it to more contemporary regulations in other communities and help craft a revised bylaw.
 
Unlike the zoning bylaw, where amendments require approval of town meeting, the subdivision control bylaw is a creation of the Planning Board, which can make changes on its own after a public hearing process it hopes to complete this year.
 
At a special Planning Board meeting on May 26, Dillon Sussman of Dodson and Flinker and his colleagues walked the board through a dozen different decision points that the board must resolve — either by leaving the bylaw as is or making a change — and offered suggestions based on best practices.
 
All of the issues are technical and ranged from the fundamental, like how the bylaw will define types of subdivisions, to the highly specific, like what turning radii will be required in new streets that are constructed to serve planned developments.
 
One example of a topic that came up in the recent approval of a four-home subdivision off Summer Street is stormwater management.
 
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