Business at Chapala’s property registry office has been inordinately slow over the first three weeks of the year. 

A week-long clean-up campaign along the Libramiento bypass is scheduled to get under way Monday, January 23, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., continuing daily through the last day of the month.   

The Lake Chapala Shrine Club is writing an extraordinary new chapter in its long history of supporting medical treatments for local children. 

The Chapala government’s legal office is fighting an uphill battle against a private company that holds a concession contract for the installation and maintenance of LED technology street lamps throughout the municipality.

During a January 12 press conference ostensibly called to lay out the Chapala government’s strategies to reduce expenditures, Mayor Javier Degollado announced that the administration will not backtrack on 2017 hikes in municipal taxes and fees, nor the across-the-board pay raise for municipal employees taking effect this month. 

Lakeside’s Stand Together Rally and March is set for Saturday, 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, Mexico and around the globe.