Eph claim 5 All-NESCAC Men's X-C honors and 4 Women's honors

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Will Palmer '11, Dan Frank '11, Anthony Raduazo '12, Josephat 'J' Koima '12, Edgar Kosgey '10

HADLEY, Mass. - Williams senior Edgar Kosgey (Eldoret Rift Valley, Kenya) and sophomore Josephat Koima (Eldoret Rift Valley, Kenya) earned First Team All-NESCAC honors, while seniors Jeff Perlis (Bethesda, MD) and Corey Watts (Madison, WI) along with sophomore Anthony Raduazo (Bolton) collected Second Team honors.

A familiar face at the front of the Ephs’ pack, Kosgey paced his squad to their fourth NESCAC title in the last four years as he finished second for the second year in a row (25:57). Koima in his first appearance at the conference championship came in third with a time of 26:18.

A year ago Perlis was a First Team selection and Raduazo earned Second Team recognition and was named the NESCAC Rookie of the year.

This Eph quintet led Williams to its fourth consecutive NESCAC crown giving the Ephs a NESCAC-best 12 titles under head coach Peter Farwell who was named Coach of the Year.

Now in his 30th season with the Ephs, Farwell’s team has won more NESCAC titles than any other during his tenure, as they captured their 12th overall crown this past weekend at Wickham Park. It is the third time in the last four years that Farwell has been named Coach of the Year after winning the award in 2006 and again in 2007. He shared the league’s coaching honors with Peter Slovenski of Bowdoin in 2000.  

Edgar Kosgey '10 Josephat Koima '12
Jeff Perlis '10 Anthony Raduazo '12 Corey Watts '10   

Gossels, Scofield, Dear & Goldstein-Kral earn NESCAC honors

HADLEY, Mass. - Williams first year Jennifer Gossels (Sudbury) picked up First Team All-NESCAC honors and the trio of Bret Scofield (Orinda, CA), Annie Dear (Olympia, WA) and Lauren Goldstein-Kral (Shaker Heights, OH all earned Second Team honors.

Gossels was the sixth finisher overall and was clocked in 22:19. Senior Bret Scofield managed to finish 12th overall despite a nasty spike wound at the start that required some stitching. Scofield’s 22:36 earned her Second Team recognition for the second year in a row.

First year Annie Dear was one second behind Scofield in 12th place (22:37) and sophomore Lauren Goldstein-Kral came in 14th (22:39).

With the efforts of the above four the Ephs finished second at the NESCAC Championships. The Ephs will next see action on November 14th when they compete in the NCAA New England Qualifier to determine which teams from the region advance to the NCAA Championships.

Top to bottom: Jennifer Gossels, Bret Scofield, lauren Goldstein-Kral and Annie Dear
 

 
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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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