Few Lakesiders know about a local treasure that has been quietly presiding over our beautiful corner of the world on the razor’s edge of the Sierra Madres for the past four decades.

On a wet morning, under the kind of light but steady rainfall the locals call chipi-chip, Servando Flores Raygoza took off at the front of the pack of 60 runners lined up at the starting gate for Ajijic’s sixth annual La Campanaria Mountain Race, held Saturday, August 24.

Expect lively action at the Ajijic plaza this weekend as villagers come together to honor the memory of two of their most distinguished inhabitants: Julia Ramos Velázquez de España and Crescencio Ramos Heredia.

A group of 25 Ajijic residents fed up with excessive noise in their neighborhoods got the ear of City Hall officials at a meeting held Thursday, August 29, in the mayor’s office.

The driver of a dump truck loaded with building material lost brake power while traveling on the downhill slope of the Libramiento bypass early Monday, August 19, causing the vehicle to careen out of control and overturn at the junction with the Chapala-Jocotepec highway.

A family fishing expedition at Lake Chapala ended in tragedy late last week when the father of the clan drowned at the Ajijic waterfront.