Natchez has always been blessed with an unusually high number of good, local restaurants for a city its size.

Many of us regularly enjoy their fares.

But once a year, our restaurants take center stage. And they led the good news from this week.

4In what has become one of Natchez’s premier events, the Natchez Food & Wine Festival rolled out a tasty combination of educational and informative presentations and some amazingly food and wine to enjoy, too.

4Not only will next year’s food festival bring more visitors to the city, but those visitors may see a cleaner bluff, too. Keep Natchez-Adams County Beautiful recently received a $5,000 grant from Waste Management Inc. for a bluff clean-up project. The funds will help a clean-up effort along and under the bluff as well as to provide funding to prevent littering in the future.

4A local company made headlines this week after they cleaned up the former Ethyl Petroleum Additives plant and turned it into a biodiesel processing plant. Last week, the leaders of Delta Biofuels announced they had recently manufactured more than one million gallons in the last several months. That is a huge milestone and one deserving of some praise.

From restaurants to industry, good news was served up all over the area last week and we hope more good news is in store this week.