The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The mayors of Jocotepec, Chapala and Tuxcueca are flying high at the prospect of creating a heliport circuit linking their respective municipalities to the medical emergency airlift services provided by the Jalisco Sistema de Atención de Urgencias (SAMU).
Earlier this month a reader asked the Guadalajara Reporter to investigate whether the Chapala municipal government intends to impose a ban on driving golf carts on public roads.
With the renowned International Mariachi Festival going live again after the virtual editions of the past two years, the Guadalajara Chamber of Commerce (Canaco) has announced that Chapala and Jocotepec are among seven municipalities outside the metro area selected to host gala concerts this year.
A crew from the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) may have delivered the death blow to five mature jacarandas in an apparently overzealous tree trimming exercise carried out along Calle La Vista in upper Chula Vista.
The restoration of Pozo 3, the well that supplies water to most of central Chapala, has been completed, with Mayor Alejandro Aguirre joining staff from the Simapa utility on hand for the public ceremony to open the main valve.
The sinister wave of criminal violence that has rocked Lake Chapala’s south shore over the past several months hit an ominous crest with the June 12 assassination of José Antonio Languren Martìnez, commissar of the Tizapán el Alto police department.
The headquarters of Chapala’s Dirección de Seguridad Pública (DSP) held a ceremony Wednesday, June 15 to formalize the promotion of 25 officers serving on the local police force.
Jocotepec has been selected as the host venue for a three-day series of national championship cycling races organized under the auspices of the Federación Nacional de Ciclismo (FMC).
Despite the radical adjustments in teaching methods employed in regular classroom settings during the worst months of the Covid-19 pandemic, a number of lakeside area students have overcome learning obstacles to excel and earn distinction in several recent academic competitions.
