By majority vote of the City Council on December 12, Chapala’s spending budget for the coming year was set at 310,783,300 pesos, pending ratification by the state legislature and publication in the state’s official gazette by the end of this month.

To get 2020 off to a light-hearted start, residents of Ajijic’s west-end Barrio de Guadalupe will put on their annual Año Nuevo parade Wednesday, January 1.

Motorists traveling the Chapala-Ajijic Libramiento count on greater safety since traffic lane markings were finally painted on the new pavement last week.

Back in early May, Chapala Mayor Moisés Anaya presided at a public meeting at the Ajijic plaza to announce how the government would spend money collected from early-bird tax payers who voted on their preferences during the first three months of this year.

It only took being stuck in a bumper-to-bumper traffic jam one time for Governor Enrique Alfaro to get all fired up about solving the nagging inconvenience of the Ajijic highway bottleneck.

A colorful sign spelling out the name San Antonio Tlayacapan was unveiled on Saturday, December 21 at the town plaza, following that evening’s Posada celebration.