General News

While supporters of SOS Chapala Dog Rescue lament the municipal government’s initiative to abandon the canine shelter the group has operated for the last two years, neighbors of the La Canacinta site view the opening of an alternative refuge as a long-awaited blessing. 

A new well has been up and running in Ajijic since the end of last week. A video posted on Mayor Alejandro Aguirre’s Facebook site shows him accompanied by personnel from the Simapa utility opening the valve of the pump that will distribute water supplies to residential and commercial addresses located at the western extremes of the town, in the vicinity of in La Canacinta, El Bajio and La Cristina.

Local motorists were taken by surprise when a series of three sizable speed bumps cropped up without warning on Tuesday, May 31, along Chapala’s Avenida Hidalgo in the vicinity of the Hotel Villa Montecarlo.

A Chapala resident who was playing in a local soccer league match on Sunday, May 29, collapsed and died on the sidewalk outside the Campo Municipal Juan Rayo on Avenida Madero. 

The opening of the Museo de Arte de Ajijic (AMA) held Wednesday, June 1, drew a large crowd of guests anxious to see the ambitious project spearheaded by local artist Efrén González.

The brainchild of Araceli Kopiloff and Katja Köhl, Negocios Magicos Design Challenge is an economic development and philanthropic project offering creative design solutions to small businesses.

Chapala Mayor Alejandro Aguirre presented his latest appointments to fill vacant positions on the City Hall staff at a press conference held Thursday, May 26.

SOS Chapala Dog Rescue, a local NGO dedicated to saving and finding permanent homes for  abused and abandoned canines, has explained why it has serious reservations about the local government’s plans to relocate the dog shelter that has operated on the west end of Ajijic since July 2020.