Three eminent Tarahumara runners are signed up to compete in the maximum challenge of Ajijic’s Ultra Trail Campanaria 2017, a three-pronged mountain race slated for Sunday, August 13.

Art, music, dance, literature and more are wrapped into six weeks of activities programmed for Sincrónico 2, Chapala’s second annual festival of contemporary arts.

Following a series of public meetings held throughout this week to familiarize Ajijic residents with plans to develop a biking path and sidewalks adjacent to the central highway, city hall officials are gearing up to conduct a formal public opinion poll, tentatively scheduled for Sunday, August 19.

Large squads of agents from Jalisco’s Traffic Department (Secretaria de Movilidad or SeMov) swooped down on the lakeshore area on Sunday, August 6 for twin operations to trap drunk drivers.

Carlos Lomelí Bolaños, the pharmaceutical magnate and federal congressman for the left-of-center Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena), is donating medical supplies to residents in the lakeshore town of Poncitlan, where dozens of cases of kidney failure have been reported.

Motorists beware while traveling the back streets of central Chapala. A major street repair project for a three-block segment of Calle Zaragoza under way this week will spawn detours and anticipated traffic jams in the vicinity.