The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
To counteract risks to public health due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Chapala government will prohibit entry to all local cemeteries on Monday, November 2, Mexico’s Día de Muertos.
The Ajijic recycling program is gradually cranking up operations on a limited scale following temporary suspension of some services caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Mandatory health screenings (filtros or filters) to enter the Guadalajara historic core have been reinstated and will remain in place on weekends for the foreseeable future, the Guadalajara municipal government says.
Personnel assigned to Chapala’s regulations department are beefing up inspections of local businesses to detect violations of Covid-19 infection safeguards.
Chapala Harbormaster Jorge Salvador Melendres Fuentes issued a public alert Wednesday, October 14, after receiving reports of various sightings of a crocodile on the loose in Lake Chapala.
Covid-19 is striking another blow to the Chapala area’s most cherished cultural happenings. The annual Fiesta Purépecha, normally held in Ajijic around mid-December, has been cancelled.
The development of a small condominium complex set on the hillside above Ajijic’s Villa Nova neighborhood has sparked a debate that highlights the growing pains and environmental issues that are impacting the quality of life in Chapala and other north shore communities.
Dozens of topes (speed bumps) that once riddled the Chapala-Jocotepec highway were eliminated when the roadway was resurfaced earlier this year.
The Chapala government this week delivered 147 eco-friendly household plumbing kits, made available to local families at the bargain price of 8,050 pesos each.
