Editorial: Monday Shorts: ‘Excellence and Opportunity’ Dr. Dean Singer at 146 Federal St. in Greenfield. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ Published: 4/12/2021 2:52:52 PM Here are some brief thoughts on recent happenings in Franklin County and the North Quabbin region. Since 1962, Greenfield Community College has offered “Excellence and Opportunity,” as the title of Arthur W. Shaw’s history of its first 25 years puts it, to the residents of Franklin County and beyond. Readers with long memories will recall when the college was strung out across downtown Greenfield — the old Federal Street school, the Newell Court annex, the former Threadwell Tap & Die building on Arch Street, and probably other humble sites — even as its early leaders jockeyed for a permanent campus. But to its students, these makeshift quarters were a string of pearls because they felt like “college” — intellectually demanding yet always supportive of its students.