CHAPALA - Chapala Mayor Gerardo Degollado closed 2008 with a promise that the next 12 months will be the best year of his administration.

CHAPALA - Plans to widen the road from Chapala to San Nicolas de Ibarra have been scrapped due to a foul up in the distribution of federal funds.

CHAPALA - After a decade of silence, Chapala’s town hall clock is chiming anew.

CHAPALA - Chapala is making a bid to headquarter the lakeshore region’s software park, snatching away a project originally planned in the neighboring municipality of Poncitlan.

January

The Chapala municipal government launches a major “filth offensive,” Municipio Limpio, in an effort to keep streets and sidewalks free of litter, weeds and junk vehicles.