General News

As part of Chapala’s June 16 celebration of the State of Jalisco Bicentennial, local residents were invited to contribute objects representing the community’s present day life and culture for the Ajijic time capsule that will be squirreled away and reopened 50 years from now.

Lake Chapala is showing the impact of the delayed start of the summer rainy season combined with June’s on-going heat wave.

Mechanical breakdowns of three garbage trucks have caused interruptions in regular trash collection services in several heavily populated Chapala neighborhoods and the satellite town of Atotonilquillo over the past week.

Manix Restaurant Bar, an icon in Ajijic’s growing constellation of prime dining spots, will maintain regular customer service of its popular menu choices and occasional special events before closing its doors at the end of the year.

In the face of nagging traffic tangles that have persisted over the past year to the aggravation of local motorists, the reconstruction of Chapala’s Avenida Madero is now moving along at a steady pace after Jalisco’s Secretariat of Infrastructure and Public Works (SIOP) contracted three separate private companies to carry out the third stage of the top-to-bottom main street rehab project.

In the latest shuffle of top officials at Chapala City Hall, José Luis Chávez Rivas was sworn in as the administration’s third head of Hacienda, the municipal treasury, during the June 6 session of the Cabildo (city council).

In an effort to alleviate some of the traffic congestion that plagues the junction of the Libramiento and the Chapala-Jocotepec highway, Jalisco’s Secretariat of Infrastructure and Public Works (SIOP) has given a green light to building a second off-ramp from the bypass for vehicles heading west towards Ajijic.

Dozens of new trash containers suddenly appeared in the center of Ajijic two weeks ago, in a initiative attributed to Jalisco’s Pueblo Mágico program.