CHAPALA - Customers swamped Lakeside’s brand new Wal-Mart outlet within minutes of its doors opening early Tuesday, November 11.

CHAPALA - The Chapala government has pepped up its fight against criminal activity by hiring a new police chief and setting up a sophisticated video surveillance system to help keep the bad guys in check.

CHAPALA - The Veteran’s Day crowd attending ceremonies on November 11 was shocked to find, upon entering the section of the cemetery devoted to U.S., Canadian and allied veterans, that most of the bronze plaques had been removed from the memorial wall.

CHAPALA - A day before the presidential election, Spanish-language daily El Occidental talked to U.S. residents at Lakeside and concluded that the Democrats would have swept the area had the local vote been tallied.