Recovered from sampling all the delicious food and drinks offered at the weekend’s Great River Road Food Festival? If so, belly up to sample some of last week’s good news:

Vidalia Mayor Hyram Copeland said receiving a $247,750 grant to improve that town’s riverfront boat ramp to handle bigger boats is just the first step in plans for that area.

The next step: applying for a grant to build a marina, something that should benefit fisherman and other boaters throughout the Miss-Lou.

Dozens of residents, officers and public officials traveled from neighborhood to neighborhood Tuesday night, visiting as part of Natchez’s annual National Night Out Against Crime.

The event gives locals a chance to visit with each other, have fun and sample food hot off the grill. But forming such alliances also makes neighbors more likely to look out for each other, cooperate with police and combat crime.

Local churches are banding together to help homeless families turn their lives around, including 115 families that the group, Family Promise, has already identified.

The national nonprofit’s goal is to provide shelter, meals and assistance for homeless people with dependants. Churches provide evening and morning meals, places for families to sleep and help with job and housing searches, school registration and transportation to and from school for the families’ children.

A $135,000 federal grant will help fund a Louisiana State University mobile classroom that will travel through the state to help rural businesses with technical assistance and training.

Although no dates are set for the classroom to arrive in Concordia Parish, it will happen, officials with the program said.

Here’s to another week full of good news.