General News

Neighbors of upper Ajijic will honor San Sebastián, the barrio’s patron saint, on Friday, January 20. 

A big turnout is expected for lakeside’s Stand Together Rally and March Saturday, set for January 21 in conjunction with the Women’s March on Washington and call-to-action events planned in dozens of other cities across the United States and around the globe.

Chapala Historic Archives Director Rogelio Ochoa is offering a 5,000-peso reward for information leading to the identity of the person or persons responsible for recent damages to the collection of 40 vintage photographs displayed inside in City Hall building. 

Chapala’s first 2017 homicide case went on record Sunday, January 1 after a corpse was found on a foot trail leading off the Libramiento bypass located a short distance from the entrance to Chula Vista Norte.

Ajijic residents concerned about the rash of apparently deliberate dog poisonings in recent months should be relieved to learn that no new cases have been reported since early December. 

In opposition to the hefty January 1 increase in gasoline prices, lakeside social media is blazing with messages calling for citizens to join the outcry and pressure government authorities by holding back payment of local property taxes and water service fees until the top discount period runs out at the end of February.  Unusually scant turnout at the municipality’s places of Iayment this week suggests that the movement is gaining traction among Mexican citizens and foreign residents alike.  

Caretakers of San Antonio Tlayacapan’s shoreline malecón (boardwalk) discovered extensive intentional damages to the park’s green areas and equipment when they arrived for work early Tuesday, January 10.

Inhabitants of Chapala have eagerly jumped on the nationwide bandwagon in opposition to the hefty January 1 increase in gasoline prices.