Look back just one year ago and recall that falling victim to property crimes was the foremost public issue among most lakeside inhabitants.

Larry Nottingham, commander of Chapala’s American Legion Post Seven, has announced temporary modifications to operating hours after learning that restaurant staff were in close contact with a person who tested positive for Covid-19.

One of the easiest traps to fall into when learning Spanish is to think that words with more or less the same spelling actually have the same meaning in both English and Spanish.

Masks and sana distancia can apparently coexist with fun in the sun, as demonstrated by Mexicans and foreigners visiting tourist hotspots here during the Christmas, New Year and Dia de Reyes holidays. 

“It got so I couldn’t go hiking without seeing one of my neighbors dragging down a tree,” monarch butterfly conservationist and eco-tourism entrepreneur Ellen Sharp, PhD, recently wrote from her home and B&B at the border of the state of Michoacan near a sanctuary for the colorful creatures.

The headline of Guadalajara Reporter stories published on the coronavirus pandemic illustrate the development of disease both locally and nationally over the second half of 2020.