Taking good care of planet Earth, understanding local environmental issues and learning how to get involved with activist groups are central themes that will be addressed at the Día de la Tierra Axixic festival programed for April 22 through 24.

Chapala Mayor Alejandro Aguirre popped by a recent training session of the municipality’s amateur soccer squad to offer moral support to the players heading into the first round of the 2022 Copa Jalisco tournament.

As illegal appropriation of federal land located along Lake Chapala’s shoreline becomes more prevalent with the dry season descent of its waters, the self-titled Colectivo Pueblos Unidos de la Ribera is picking up where it left off six months ago in tearing down fences that obstruct free passage through north shore beach areas.

Chapala is represented in the global robotics tournament RoboRave International 2022 by 24 local primary and secondary students who are enrolled in the EduWit science, technology and engineering workshops held on the Ajijic campus of  Instituto Thomas More (ITM).

A statewide ballroom dance competition will take place in Ocotlan on Saturday, April 9, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 

A dump truck loaded with gravel lost brake power and careened out of control on the approach to the Libramiento intersection with the Chapala-Jocotepec highway mid-afternoon Tuesday, April 5, causing a dramatic multi-vehicle pile-up in which, fortunately, no one was killed or seriously injured.