General News

After 35 years of contented living in free union, Edith Gisela González Rodríguez, 65, and Socorro García Aguilar, 62, legally tied the knot at a civil marriage ceremony held Monday, July 10 at Chapala City Hall.

In an effort to improve the efficiency of garbage collection in Ajijic, town administrator Chuni Medeles has announced the revamping of the local green waste pickup schedule as an emergency stopgap measure.

Would you like to see pedestrian and bicycle friendly improvements for the narrowest stretch of highway running through Ajijic? Would you approve reducing parking spaces to make that possible?

Friendly rivals Pedro Ruiz from Villa Corona and Ajijic’s Juan Pablo Hernández will face off in the stellar match for a champion’s belt in the Mixed Martial Arts Xstream Tournament set for Saturday, July 15, 7 p.m., at the Huerta de Serna events hall.

A field of 22 warriors will compete in three weight categories during the event.  Advance tickets for open seating are on sale for 100 pesos at the the Family Fitness Center in Plaza Bugambilias. VIP spots with tables and chairs cost 200 pesos.

While pilgrims gather to raise hopeful prayers at the edge of Lake Chapala, weather watchers are keeping their fingers crossed for a turnaround to the sluggish start of this year’s rainy season.

As the 2017 rainy season cranks up, ideal breeding conditions for disease-carrying mosquitoes will be coming to a peak, increasing the risks of an epidemic of dengue fever in the lakeshore region.

A throng of 15,000 pilgrims is expected to take Chapala by storm Sunday, July 9 to accompany the revered Virgen de Zapopan on her annual summer trek to Mexico’s largest lake.

After completion of the first major public works project for Ajijic under the current administration, Chapala government officials gathered Sunday, June 18, to inaugurate the new Unidad Deportiva (sports complex) located on the east end of town just off the Camino Real running through La Floresta.