General News

In what counts as a heart-warming, true-life holiday story, an expatriate resident and a local businessman are teaming up to help out a Chapala couple and their four children who lost their home and personal belongings in a December 10 fire caused by an electrical short circuit. 

Chapala’s Parroquia de San Francisco closes a full week of special Christmas programs – offered following the 7 p.m. evening Mass – with a live Mystery of Bethlehem tableau set up on Friday, December 23, 8 to 9 p.m. 

While thousands of activists are mobilizing across the United States in support of the Women’s March on Washington set for the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, Lakeside Progressives for Action are winding up for a parallel Backlash Begins rally to be held Saturday, January 21 in Ajijic.

The future development of vertical housing in the lakeside area is unavoidable, Chapala Mayor Javier Degollado declared during a December 12 meeting with concerned citizens. 

Operation Smile Mexico was honored by President Enrique Peña Nieto as the 2016 group winner of the Premio Nacional de Acción Voluntaria y Solidaria, the annual prize for outstanding achievement in volunteer charity work.

The La Floresta Homeowners Association (HOA) and a network of local organizations and residents concerned about troubling urban development management issues scored a minor victory this week when Chapala City Hall shut down work on a high-rise apartment building under construction on Paseo de la Huerta, adjacent to the Club Náutico.

With many government employees taking time off for the holidays, Chapala city hall offices will operate with skeleton staff on duty from December 19 through December 3.

Chapala Mayor Javier Degollado has issued a public apology in response to the local firestorm sparked by a faux pas in the set up of the nativity scene display along the esplanade opposite City Hall.