KJ's Dance With Me Enrolling Students

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — KJ’s Dance With Me is accepting registration for the 2014-15 school year.  

Classes offered will be Pre-Ballet and Junior Jazz for the younger students, ages 4-6, with fundamentals of dance movement through mini sound and dance routines; Classical Ballet and Jazz for ages 7-14;  and Classical Ballet for Teen/Adults.

Classes will be held in Williamstown under the direction of Kathy Ascevich, and will run Oct. 14 through mid-June.

Ascevich, an alumna of North Carolina School of the Arts and faculty member and graduate of the Cantarella School of Dance, has been instructing for 27 years in the northern Berkshire area. Her classes place an emphasis on discipline, technique, individualized personal attention   and fun.

To register and for more information, including times, cost and location, call 413-458-8612 or 413-671-8899.

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Williams Seeking Town Approval for New Indoor Practice Facility

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Planning Board last week gave Williams College the first approval it needs to build a 55,000-square foot indoor athletic facility on the north side of its campus.
 
Over the strenuous objection of a Southworth Street resident, the board found that the college's plan for a "multipurpose recreation center" or MRC off Stetson Road has adequate on-site parking to accommodate its use as an indoor practice facility to replace Towne Field House, which has been out of commission since last spring and was demolished this winter.
 
The college plans a pre-engineered metal that includes a 200-meter track ringing several tennis courts, storage for teams, restrooms, showers and a training room. The athletic surface also would be used as winter practice space for the school's softball and baseball teams, who, like tennis and indoor track, used to use the field house off Latham Street.
 
Since the planned structure is in the watershed of Eph's Pond, the college will be before the Conservation Commission with the project.
 
It also will be before the Zoning Board of Appeals, on Thursday, for a Development Plan Review and relief from the town bylaw limiting buildings to 35 feet in height. The new structure is designed to have a maximum height of 53 1/2 feet and an average roof height of 47 feet.
 
The additional height is needed for two reasons: to meet the NCAA requirement for clearance above center court on a competitive tennis surface (35 feet) and to include, on one side, a climbing wall, an element also lost when Towne Field House was razed.
 
The Planning Board had a few issues to resolve at its March 12 meeting. The most heavily discussed involved the parking determination for a use not listed in the town's zoning bylaws and a decision on whether access from town roads to the building site in the middle of Williams' campus was "functionally equivalent" to the access that would be required under the town's subdivision rules and regulations.
 
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