The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
After a two-year break due to the Covid pandemic, Guadalajara NGO Conectando Culturas, A.C. was able to resume an exchange program with university students in Germany this summer.
Right on cue, after the Guadalajara Reporter’s front page story last week on weather phenomena in the Lake Chapala region, a waterspout snaked down from a giant black cloud bank hovering over the water early Tuesday, August 9.
As a prelude to this year’s Xupinaya mountain race, family, friends and admirers gathered at the Ajijic plaza Saturday, July 30 to honor the late Gerardo “Nardo” López Castellanos, one of the town’s most eminent foot racers.
The Festival del Lago’s musical staff and students will perform six more chamber music concerts beginning with a fundraising gala held Monday, August 8, 6 p.m.
Officers from Chapala’s Department of Urban Planning and Development (DDU) shutdown three residential units under construction in the Rancho Santa María subdivision, tucked into rural land on the city’s northern outskirts.
A lively festival held last weekend in Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos was wrapped around the quince, town’s signature fruit and source of varied by-products.
As a first step towards solving recurrent deficiencies in solid waste collection services throughout the municipality, the Chapala government is launching a review of the productivity of Grupo Integral de Recolección y Reciclados de Occidente (GIRRSA), the private company contracted to collect the community’s trash and deliver it to a landfill facility in Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos.
Atotonilquillo, Chapala’s distant satellite community, is set to revive the annual Expo Membrillo country fair on Saturday and Sunday, August 13 and 14, coming back from a two-year postponement caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Local motorists are bracing for traffic woes in navigating downtown Chapala as the first stage of the renovation of Avenida Francisco Madero kicked off this week.
