General News

The Chapala government’s legal office is fighting an uphill battle against a private company that holds a concession contract for the installation and maintenance of LED technology street lamps throughout the municipality.

Neighbors of upper Ajijic will honor San Sebastián, the barrio’s patron saint, on Friday, January 20. 

During a January 12 press conference ostensibly called to lay out the Chapala government’s strategies to reduce expenditures, Mayor Javier Degollado announced that the administration will not backtrack on 2017 hikes in municipal taxes and fees, nor the across-the-board pay raise for municipal employees taking effect this month. 

Chapala Historic Archives Director Rogelio Ochoa is offering a 5,000-peso reward for information leading to the identity of the person or persons responsible for recent damages to the collection of 40 vintage photographs displayed inside in City Hall building. 

Lakeside’s Stand Together Rally and March is set for Saturday, January 21 in conjunction with the Women’s March on Washington and call-to-action events planned in dozens of other cities across the United States, Mexico and around the globe.

Ajijic residents concerned about the rash of apparently deliberate dog poisonings in recent months should be relieved to learn that no new cases have been reported since early December. 

Chapala police have captured a prime suspect in a series of home burglaries cases that have plagued Ajijic intermittently over the past four years.  

Caretakers of San Antonio Tlayacapan’s shoreline malecón (boardwalk) discovered extensive intentional damages to the park’s green areas and equipment when they arrived for work early Tuesday, January 10.