Williams Tennis Players Excel at ITA Regional

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The USTA/ITA Regional Championships concluded Sunday, crowning new champions in singles and doubles. Both the singles champion, Linda Shin, and the doubles champions, Maria Pylypiv and Rebecca Curran, were from Williams.

Three of the four semifinalists in singles were Ephs, guaranteeing a Williams representative in the finals. Linda Shin defeated her teammate Maria Pylypiv, 6-2, 6-2 in the semis, while teammate Juli Raventos beat her opponent, Aandrita Deb of Tufts, 6-4, 6-2. In the Williams vs. Williams final, Shin won a thriller 6-1, 7-6 (7-5). Shin came into the tournament as the third seed.

In doubles, the senior-captain pairing of Curran/Pylypiv beat NESCAC foes Chow/Trinka of Bowdoin, 8-4.

The 2014 USTA/ITA National Small College Championships (NCAA Divisions II and III, NAIA and Junior/Community College) tournament field will be comprised of the singles and doubles champions or at-large representatives from the eight USTA/ITA Regional Championships. The USTA/ITA National Small College Championships will be held Oct. 9-12 at the Palmetto Tennis Center in Sumter, S.C.

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Williamstown Affordable Housing Trust Hears Objections to Summer Street Proposal

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Neighbors concerned about a proposed subdivision off Summer Street last week raised the specter of a lawsuit against the town and/or Northern Berkshire Habitat for Humanity.
 
"If I'm not mistaken, I think this is kind of a new thing for Williamstown, an affordable housing subdivision of this size that's plunked down in the middle, or the midst of houses in a mature neighborhood," Summer Street resident Christopher Bolton told the Affordable Housing Trust board, reading from a prepared statement, last Wednesday. "I think all of us, the Trust, Habitat, the community, have a vested interest in giving this project the best chance of success that it can have. We all remember subdivisions that have been blocked by neighbors who have become frustrated with the developers and resorted to adversarial legal processes.
 
"But most of us in the neighborhood would welcome this at the right scale if the Trust and Northern Berkshire Habitat would communicate with us and compromise with us and try to address some of our concerns."
 
Bolton and other residents of the neighborhood were invited to speak to the board of the trust, which in 2015 purchased the Summer Street lot along with a parcel at the corner of Cole Avenue and Maple Street with the intent of developing new affordable housing on the vacant lots.
 
Currently, Northern Berkshire Habitat for Humanity, which built two homes at the Cole/Maple property, is developing plans to build up to five single-family homes on the 1.75-acre Summer Street lot. Earlier this month, many of the same would-be neighbors raised objections to the scale of the proposed subdivision and its impact on the neighborhood in front of the Planning Board.
 
The Affordable Housing Trust board heard many of the same arguments at its meeting. It also heard from some voices not heard at the Planning Board session.
 
And the trustees agreed that the developer needs to engage in a three-way conversation with the abutters and the trust, which still owns the land, to develop a plan that is more acceptable to all parties.
 
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