General News

Four well-established authors will rub elbows with local scribes during three days of activities scheduled for the 10th Annual Lake Chapala Writers Conference, set for February 26 through 28 at Ajijic’s Hotel Danza del Sol.

Impuesto Predial (property tax) on real estate located in the municipality of Chapala is handled at the Catastro (land registry) office located in the main lobby of the Palacio Municipal (city hall), Avenida Madero 202, open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The Chapala government is well along the path to running one of the most up-to-date and technically sophisticated municipal land registry offices in Jalisco, if not the nation, according to the city’s Catastro director Juan Carlos Pelayo. 

As grown-ups regroup in the wake of Christmas and New Year festivities, youngsters all over Mexico restlessly await the next big chapter of the holiday season: the celebration of Dia de Reyes or Three Kings Day, better known to most Anglos as Epiphany.

Thanks to a timely tip from neighbors in Rancho del Oro, Chapala officials were able to halt the clandestine construction of a cellular phone transmission tower in the middle of the west end residential area.

If you’re looking for a rollicking good time to put you in a upbeat mood and relieve the winter blues, you won’t want to miss the terrific Lip Sync Six song and dance show, booked to run for four straight dates next week at the Auditorio de la Ribera. The event is programmed as a fundraiser to continue the auditorium renovation project.

The Spirit of Michoacan photographic exhibit put on last month in the Ajijic plaza was aborted almost a week ahead of schedule after four of the handsome large-format images by Jesus Alexandre vanished mysteriously sometime between 2 and 5 a.m. on Sunday, December 22. 

Jocotepec is winding up for two straight weeks of fervent festivity starting Tuesday, January 7 as the townspeople renew their reverence for spiritual patron El Señor del Monte (The Lord of the Mount).