Editorial: Monday Shorts: Dixie lives — and we rejoice Dixie, a 9-year-old Pit Bull mix owned by Dr. Richard Warner, of Buckland, is tended to by EMTs in an ambulance after being rescued from McLeod Pond in Colrain by firefighters Thursday afternoon. COURTESY PHOTO/COLRAIN FIREFIGHTERS’ ASSOCIATION Published: 12/13/2020 2:25:11 PM Here are some brief thoughts on recent happenings in Franklin County and the North Quabbin region. Our emergency heroes to the rescue It was a close call for a dog that had bounded out onto McLeod Pond in Colrain and fallen through thin ice. Owner Dr. Richard Warner of Buckland wisely called 911.