General News

Constant traffic snarls along the Chapala-Jocotepec highway cause a lot of frustration for local motorists, but few demonstrate as much desperation as the crazed driver spotted early this week attempting to bypass the backup near the Libramiento intersection by racing ahead on the Ciclopista bicycle track.

Officials and staff of the Chapala government gathered to bid a heartfelt farewell to City Hall employee Angelina Flores Solano, surrounding her coffin displayed in the lobby prior to her funeral service at the San Francisco parish church on Wednesday, February 1.

Progress on the renovation of Chapala’s Avenida Madero was marked by the conclusion of repaving and the reopening of the north bound lane of the block between Calles Morelos and López Cotilla, running adjacent to the central plaza.

Hit tunes by The Beatles and other golden oldies rocked the roof of Ajijic’s El Barco for the three-day series of performances by the local band Los Romeos, organized as fundraisers for Niños Incapacitados.

Lakeside residents are seeing clusters of bright yellow trumpet-shaped blossoms burst out at the tops of tall trees growing along local roadsides and in private gardens.

State authorities are investigating a shootout that occurred Thursday, January 26 on the Morelia-Jocotepec highway on the outskirts of  El Molino, leaving three men dead.

Lake Chapala Baptists

Sermon: “Continue in your Salvation,” from Philippians 2:13: For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

Although local non-smokers and persons with an aversion to second-hand smoke may be heartened by the recent enactment of strict regulations under Mexico’s General Law for Tobacco Control, they won’t want to holding their breath for an imminent crackdown.