Diners queued early Thursday morning, May 26, 2022, to catch one last order of eggs Benedict or blueberry pancakes from Sylvester's in Northampton. The mainstay plans to close at the end of the weekend after 39 years of business. (Will Katcher/MassLive). Ann McEwen teared up when she heard that Sylvester’s, a beloved Northampton breakfast and lunch joint of nearly four decades, would close on Sunday.

Picture by The Electric Eye Photography. HAMPSHIRE Food Festival is to return this summer with a full programme of events for food lovers. The event runs from July 1 to 31. It will celebrate the 20th anniversary following a break of two years. Tasty events will include tours of breweries, distilleries, farms and vineyards, masterclasses and workshops, festivals, fetes and markets, pop-up dining experiences, cookery demonstrations, and more.

Lesley Waters has established her own cookery school in Shaftesbury. DORSET-based celebrity chef Lesley Waters has been named patron of PLANETS Cancer Charity. PLANETS helps patients with pancreatic, liver, colorectal, abdominal and neuroendocrine cancer by funding patient support groups, innovative treatments and research.

Peter St. Martin, left, Jillian Duclos, holding her son, Henri St. Martin, 1 1/2, Maureen "Mo" McGuinness and Christopher St. Martin, owners of Sylvester's Restaurant in Northampton, gather on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, to talk about the history of the Pleasant Street eatery which will be closing this weekend.

Jill Bennett saw a supermarket worker binning more than ten bags of fresh fruit, veg, meat and ready meals in the bin. She decided to take home the waste and was shocked with her findings A care worker has eaten free for a month after 'waiting around bins' outside supermarkets after being 'sickened' by the food they waste.

AMHERST — Marcus Camby, whose standout basketball career as part of the University of Massachusetts Minutemen is recognized with a statue outside the Mullins Center, is working with White Lion Brewing Company to bring a nano brewhouse to downtown Amherst in the fall. The Springfield company announced Wednesday that the Connecticut native and retired NBA player, with whom it partnered to create the Marcus Camby New England IPA in January, will continue the relationship with the development of a site, in vacant retail space at 104 North Pleasant St., that will offer products such as one-time experimental ales, a test kitchen, a taproom and an outdoor social space.