The Guadalajara Reporter
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Lack of personnel was cited as the reason that the commander of the 14th Guardia National (GN) Battalion headquartered in Jocotepec has scrapped plans to assign a detachment of his forces to a sub-base in Chapala.
Mayor Moisés Anaya welcomed Gustavo Camacho, his counterpart from Pico Rivera, California, to Chapala November 10 to push forward on establishing an official sister city relationship between the two communities.
Cemeteries located in Chapala and other lakeshore communities will remain closed to the public through this weekend, under the two-week Covid-19 mitigation measures implemented by state authorities.
Last week’s activation of the statewide Covid-19 “emergency button” notwithstanding, the Chapala government is forging ahead with a number of public works projects.
Townspeople of San Juan Cosalá gathered on the village plaza early Monday, November 2 to pitch in to restore the monumental Day of the Dead Altar that was partially destroyed in a accidental fire the previous night.
While Jalisco health authorities have reported a modest downtrend in the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus over the past week, Chapala has seen a significant uptick of the disease since the first of this month.
The Chapala police department added more wheels to its patrol fleet November 4.
As author of the article published in the October 10-16 edition of this newspaper, entitled “Condo development on Ajijic hillside stirs controversy,” I have received a rebuttal from Michael J. Harrison, co-owner of the property in question and spouse of Alma Harrison, the Vista La Montaña project’s registered developer.
The Chapala government shut down five local commercial enterprises last weekend for violating the norms mandated for the two-week Covid-19 prevention campaign that started on Friday, October 31.
