Williams College: Ephs Win 3-0 Over Trinity in NESCAC Weekend

Williams Sports InfoBy Melissa Whitaker
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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – The Williams College volleyball team (11-4) defeated conference opponent Trinity College in three sets (25-22, 25-16, 25-23). This is the second win for the Ephs this weekend, who defeated rival Amherst College on Friday.

“Today there were some positive things, but we definitely struggled at times,” said head coach Christi Kelsey. “Trinity played a great match.”

Strong opposition from Trinity kept the Ephs on their toes in set one. At first, the Ephs struggled to maintain consistency on offense and defense. However, the team was able to overcome their slump in game two, where they maintained a pretty solid lead throughout the set. The Ephs kept their momentum going and ultimately pushed past the Bantams for the win.

Leading the stats for the Ephs were junior Kate Anderson (18 kills), senior Andrea Scioscia (24 digs), and junior Emily Avis (40 assists).

“The important thing was that we were able to pull out a win regardless of our early struggles,” said coach Kelsey.

Williams travels to Connecticut College on October 9th to play Wesleyan at 8PM.
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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The board long has discussed the complex set of regulations as being out of date and cumbersome to both potential developers and the board itself, which has needed to hear requests for waivers of outdated rules for the handful of residential subdivisions that have been proposed in town in recent years.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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