General News

Considering that the Ajijic cemetery is practically bursting at the seams, local authorities recognize the urgency of offering the town’s residents an alternate site to lay their dearly departed to rest.

Mechanical breakdowns of three garbage trucks have caused interruptions in regular trash collection services in several heavily populated Chapala neighborhoods and the satellite town of Atotonilquillo over the past week.

Large plastic bags containing a total of 150,000 tilapia fingerlings were emptied into Lake Chapala waterson Tuesday, June 13 from the south side shoreline at Tuxcueca.

In the face of nagging traffic tangles that have persisted over the past year to the aggravation of local motorists, the reconstruction of Chapala’s Avenida Madero is now moving along at a steady pace after Jalisco’s Secretariat of Infrastructure and Public Works (SIOP) contracted three separate private companies to carry out the third stage of the top-to-bottom main street rehab project.

Cultura Chapala put on a program of ballet folklórico and traditional music Friday, June 9 to inaugurate renovations to the Centro Cultural Antigua Presidencia auditorium at the former town hall building.

In an effort to alleviate some of the traffic congestion that plagues the junction of the Libramiento and the Chapala-Jocotepec highway, Jalisco’s Secretariat of Infrastructure and Public Works (SIOP) has given a green light to building a second off-ramp from the bypass for vehicles heading west towards Ajijic.

As part of Chapala’s June 16 celebration of the State of Jalisco Bicentennial, local residents were invited to contribute objects representing the community’s present day life and culture for the Ajijic time capsule that will be squirreled away and reopened 50 years from now.

Lake Chapala is showing the impact of the delayed start of the summer rainy season combined with June’s on-going heat wave.