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Events between 11/7/2008 and 11/14/2008

FREE FILM
Friday, Nov 7
Ice Climbing, Kayaking, and Adventures: 8th Annual Williamstown Mountain Film Festival
7:00 p.m., MainStage, '62 Center, Williams College

COMMUNITY EVENT
Friday, Nov 7
Zeiss Planetarium Show: Tour the universe with Williams astronomy students (Reservations recommended: 413-597-2188)
7:30 p.m., Milham Planetarium, Old Hopkins Observatory, Williams College

THEATRE
Friday, Nov 7
Studio Series: Morgan Phillips-Spotts '09 in theatre showcase
7:30 p.m., Directing Studio, '62 Center, Williams College

LECTURE
Saturday, Nov 8
Our Fascinating Forests: Charles Fergus Speaks on New England Forest Diversity
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., Rosenburg Center, Hopkins Memorial Forest, Williamstown

FREE FILM
Saturday, Nov 8
Ice Climbing, Kayaking, and Adventures: 8th Annual Williamstown Mountain Film Festival
7:00 p.m., MainStage, '62 Center, Williams College

THEATRE
Saturday, Nov 8
Studio Series: Morgan Phillips-Spotts '09 in theatre showcase
7:30 p.m., Directing Studio, '62 Center, Williams College

LECTURE
Monday, Nov 10
America's Race to Incarcerate: Sentencing Policy Expert Marc Mauer speaks on Criminal Justice
7:30 p.m., Physics 205, Williams College

LECTURE
Tuesday, Nov 11
The Novel in the World: Fiction Reading by Nigeriann Author Uwem Akpan
4:00 p.m., Griffin 3, Williams College

LECTURE
Tuesday, Nov 11
Urban Space and Colonial Modernity in San Juan: Talk by Trinity Prof. Luis Figueroa
7:30 p.m., Hopkins Hall B1964, Williams College


LECTURE
Tuesday, Nov 11
The Gaudino Dialogues: Featuring Investment Banker Herb Allen '62
8:00 p.m., MainStage, '62 Center, Williamstown

LECTURE
Wednesday, Nov 12
"Jews in China": legends, history, and perspectives from Pan Guang, Director of Shanghai Center for International Studies
8:00 p.m., Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall, Williams College

LECTURE
Thursday, Nov 13
The Novel in the World: Focus on Princeton University's Simon Gikandi
4:00 p.m., Griffin 3, Williams College

LECTURE
Thursday, Nov 13
Annual Plonsker Lecture in Contemporary Art: Multidisciplinary Artist Carolee Schneemann
7:00 p.m., Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall, Williams College

COMMUNITY EVENT
Friday, Nov 14
Smoke Exposure, and Infant Health in Ghana: environmental studies lunch with Darby Jack '97 (Vegetarian lunch: $4)
12:00 p.m., The Log, Spring Street, Williamstown

COMMUNITY EVENT
Friday, Nov 14
The Relevance of Rachel Carson in Today's Environmental Movement: Lunch Discussion with Kaiulani Lee
12:00 p.m., Driscoll Lounge, Williams College

LECTURE
Friday, Nov 14
Knowledge and Clay in Plato's Theaetetus: Lecture by Brown University Prof. Mary Louise Gill
4:30 p.m., Griffin 6, Williams College

THEATRE
Friday, Nov 14
"A Sense of Wonder": Kaiulani Lee's Play on revolutionary biologist Rachel Carson
7:30 p.m., Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall, Williams College

COMMUNITY EVENT
Friday, Nov 14
Zeiss Planetarium Show: Tour the universe with Williams astronomy students (Reservations recommended: 413-597-2188)
7:30 p.m., Milham Planetarium, Old Hopkins Observatory, Williams College
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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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