The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Farmers in Chapala, Jocotepec and Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos have been tagged as beneficiaries of a government financing program aimed at encouraging them to switch from harmful chemical products to biological fertilizers for treating their crops.
With the official start of the 2022-2023 academic year Monday, August 29, thousands of lakeside area students are back in classrooms to follow a 195-day calendar set to run until July 18 of next year.
Festive special events leading up to Mexico’s Independence Day on September 16 will crank up at lakeside over the next two weeks, giving native inhabitants and foreigners equal opportunities to get in high spirits for the celebration of the birth of the nation.
A band of Ajijic’s wild and wacky Sayaco masked dancers added fun and color to the Ultra Trail Campanaria mountain racing series held Sunday, August 28.
Chapala and Jooctepec hosted extensions of the 29th Encuentro Internacional del Mariachi concert program, drawing huge audiences to scenic waterfront venues.
Barrios de Quilmes, the new Argentinian steak house attached to the Ajijic pier, has opened for business.
Lake Chapala is brimming today as the 2022 rainy season heads into the final stretch. As of August, official statistics from the National Water Commission (Conagua) show Mexico’s largest lake standing slightly over 70 percent holding capacity, compared with 58.41 percent one year ago.
Bolardos, the vertical poles or bollards embedded at street corners and other points along the Chapala-Jocotepec Ciclovía, have the purpose of preventing motor vehicles from invading the lanes reserved for cyclists and pedestrians.
Tiny ceremonial vessels used in pre-Hispanic times to deposit offerings of tears and blood to Lake Chapala were uncovered, along with arrowheads and shards of clay objects, during excavations being carried out on August 15 along the portion of Avenida Madero located in front of City Hall.
