Over the next two years Chapala will metamorphose from scruffy tourist town to breathtaking visitor wonderland if the current municipal administration succeeds in its grandiose plan to totally revamp the Cristiania Park, Acapulquito restaurant strip and east end of the waterfront, along with added improvements in the downtown area.

At the end of last week the Chapala government’s press office sent out an agenda of activities scheduled for March 4 through 12, giving local media outlets a welcome heads-up to plan coverage on coming events.

The installation of cell phone transmission towers in residential neighborhoods has turned into recurrent NIMBY (not-in-my-back-yard) issue in the Chapala area. 

Chapala Mayor Javier Degollado this week thumbed his nose at a group of local vendors who are calling for the ouster of Leticia Martinez Castro, head of the municipality’s Dirección de Mercados.

It’s not often that a kitten gets the best of an adult dog, but that was the unfortunate outcome of the close encounter between a baby jaguar and a pet Chihuahua reported Saturday, February 27 on Paseo del Lago in lower La Floresta. 

Facing a barrage of complaints concerning deficient garbage collection services, Ajijic Delegado (administrator) Rafael Escamilla is intent on rallying town residents to do their part in keeping the streets as clean as possible.