Williams College Cross Country Meet

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The Ephs showed a great team effort to win the title at the Purple Valley Classic, the first home meet of the season. The Varsity race was a 6 kilometer course, the same one that will be run for NCAA Regionals later in the season. Four Williams women slipped into the top ten, giving the Ephs a score of 38 points, handily beating second place Middlebury (with 66 points). Arch rival, Amherst, finished 3rd in the team competition.

For the second time in a row, captain Lauren Philbrook finished first for the Williams harriers, in a time of 22 minutes, 32 seconds. Philbrook ran a smart race, in the leading pack from the very beginning and keeping a steady pace all the way through the line. "We won all four races by a good margin [Men's and Women's JV and Varsity]," noted Philbrook. "And the fact that we beat Amherst was really exciting. I'm pretty impressed with how the freshman did in both races too, especially Mary Brunelli, who did great in her first 6k."

Not far behind Philbrook was Junior Bret Scofield, finishing 5th, who moved up nicely throughout the race, passing opponents left and right. Junior Jess Clarke had a breakthrough, feeling great over the longer course and finishing in 9th place. First year Mary Brunelli was 10th, and Meghan Shea rounded out the scoring five harriers, in 14th place.

The Junior Varsity women ran a 5k race earlier in the day, showing some promising talents. Lauren Goldstein-Kral ran most of the race with the men, finishing comfortably in first with a time of 20:13.

The Ephs take next weekend off and look forward to Division I New England's on October 11th at Franklin Park in Boston.
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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The board long has discussed the complex set of regulations as being out of date and cumbersome to both potential developers and the board itself, which has needed to hear requests for waivers of outdated rules for the handful of residential subdivisions that have been proposed in town in recent years.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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