The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
In addition to the 2025 calendar of major holidays and events published in last week’s Guadalajara Reporter, dozens of traditional religious celebrations and annual community happenings will take place in the Lake Chapala region over the next 12 months.
The Lake Chapala Society (LCS) has finalized the schedule for its first Neill James remembrance program, set for Sunday, January 12, at the LCS campus on Calle 16 de Septiembre, Ajijic.
Ajijic’s New Year’s Day parade was distinguished by its usual high spirits and mirth, featuring groups such as a colorful marching piñata platoon and a cross-dressing Snow White accompanied by seven oversized dwarfs.
The Northern Lights Music Festival is set to return to Ajijic this February, offering two weeks of extraordinary concerts and cultural events.
Signs installed last week on the new building in the Centro Laguna parking lot signal the upcoming opening of a Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen branch.
Jocotepec’s annual fiestas patronales honoring El Señor del Monte mark the beginning of a series of traditional religious celebrations that will take place at Lakeside through 2025.
SIMAPA, Chapala’s municipal water and sewage system, has temporarily suspended regular water service to parts of Ajijic throughout December.
The Chapala municipal government has begun accepting payments for 2025 property taxes and SIMAPA fees for water and sewage services as of Thursday, January 2.
In making good on his campaign promise to complete the rehabilitation of all state highways within the first 18 months of his administration, Jalisco Governor Pablo Lemus Navarro includes a proposal to build a flyover bridge to relieve the traffic bottleneck through the center of Ajijic.
