New and Exciting

in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

Past News and Articles

General News for December 19, 2005

Christmas Celebrations - December 16 through 23

San Miguel Walk Against Domestic Violence

Juárez Park receives nine sculptures donated by local artists

Commission for the preservation of the cultural heritage of SMA wants to stop tree cutting

Juarde 2006

Obituaries

Groups and Meetings

Movies

The Arts - Readings

Performing Arts

General News for December 12, 2005

Feast of the Virgin of Guadalupe

SMA's posadas

Full-moon ceremony and winter solstice

Pregnant women and anxious patients at CASA now receiving aromatherapy

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Exhibitions and Openings

Performing Arts

General News for December 5, 2005

Mayor Luis Alberto Villarreal must resign...

Foreign Community Public Safety Office has new head, Miguel Kegel

Mentoring program for the 32 little girls at the orphanage

Money and Taxes

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General News for November 28, 2005

SMA is promised underground parking by the end of April 2006

Saturday school has been in operation for five years.

Three SMA dressage riders win their categories at the Querétaro Show Jumping Circuit

Thirty-two little girls at the orphanage Casa Hogar Don Bosco feel the cold

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General News for November 21, 2005

A fundraiser for My DIFferent House (Mi Casa DIFerente)

SMA radio station XESQ  weekly program since 1997, "El Son Sabrosón" honored

Special Events

Christmas for kids in San Miguel

México en Globo,  ballooning events for Guanajuato

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General News for November 14, 2005

SMA Kennel Club hosts its 15th annual All-Breed Dog Show

SMA has a trash (basura) problem

Midday Rotary Club of SMA donates 125 English-language books

Bob Ellison, who brought National Public Radio to SMA,  succumbs to a fatal illness

American Legion Post 8 collecting sweaters for SMA elder needy citizens

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General News for November 7, 2005

Crime prevention in San Miguel

Two SMA art students paint mural for School of Odontology (Dentistry) in Guadlajara

Christmas Wishes organization needs volunteers and contributions

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General News for October 31, 2005

It is FALL back time

November 1 is All Saints' Day; November 2 is All Souls Day

Information with regard to cost of dying in San Miguel

Events

15th Annual All-Breed Dog Show

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Exhibitions and Openings

Workshops and Classes

General News for October 24, 2005

Juárez Park improvements

Traveling exhibition called "Where is AIDS Going?" for teenagers

Coming Events

Patronato Pro Niños extends dental services  with purchase of larger two-chair Mobile Dental Clinic

Meditation Center of SMA

Horseback riding - jumping especially, has local folk winning in competition.

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General News for October 17, 2005

Changes in Historic Centro

Mayor Villarreal registers as a federal senatorial candidate

El danzón, the elegant Cuban/Mexican dance tradition, returns to SMA

Full moon lunar eclipse celebration

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The Arts

Performing Arts --- Cervantino Festival

Exhibitions and Openings

Workshops and Classes

General News for October 10, 2005

Mayor Luis Alberto Villarreal presents his 2nd Annual Report

Jóvenes Adelante with help of Florence Ershun Scholarship is sending Juan Martín Trujillo García to university 

SPA and Amigos de los Animales will have a special yard sale

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General News for October 3, 2005

Church Festivals

Water testing program for all of SMA's drinking water

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Business News

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The Arts

Performing Arts

Exhibitions and Openings

RSS News Feed for San Miguel news

General News for September 26, 2005

Sanmiguelada

The Kids First Team, 21 medical specialists visit SMA

Jewish community in SMA celebrates their New Year

How to report a crime as a victim

SMA Garden Club 2006 calendar

Alborada celebrates SMA's patron saint Archangel Michael

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General News for September 19, 2005

Special Events

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The Arts

Performing Arts

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New RSS News Feed for San Miguel news

General News for September 12, 2005

Festivals and celebrations this week

Katrina hits home, even here in SMA

Juarde (Who-are-day), the directory of SMA residents - 2006 edition 

Instituto Allende now has two separate divisions

New grief support group

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General News for September 5, 2005

San Miguel has chance for inclusion in the World Heritage Site preliminary list

SMA Mayor Luis Alberto Villarreal and Alma de la Rosa Escamilla  marry

Russ Archibald, author and lecturer in strategic management, honored for contributions

Crowning of Independence Day Queen

Local USA Republicans have their own organization

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Exhibitions & Openings

New RSS News Feed for San Miguel news

General News for August 29, 2005

40,000 children begin the new school year in SMA

First phase of new SMA General Hospital 

Three of SMA's older gringo population die

List of about 100 local unregistered businesses given to Hacienda

Rugby Club for SMA

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General News for August 22, 2005

SMA as a convention city brings two conventions this week.

Small organized protest over the work being done in el Jardín

Cardo parking lot to be bigger than planned

Feed the Hungry has new Executive Director

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General News for August 15, 2005

Traffic problems: a report of the deaths of two young people

Internationally known tenor Wayne Rivera to give a "Concierto Operistico" to benefit the Red Cross

Medical personnel from Kids First, Inc., Surgical Missions Abroad will visit SMA

José Canuto Muñoz Espinoza dies at 91

Jehovah’s Witnesses will hold one of their conventions in English in Queretaro

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General News for August 8, 2005

Installation of parking meters in the Centro approved 

FREE concert by the St. Petersburg String Quartet in el Jardín

New director of Culture and Education

Save the River Laja (Salvemos al Rio Laja) will have an open house

SMA now has an equestrian club

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General News for August 1, 2005

Rains come with a vengeance

Winners announced for the 2006 Garden Club Calendar

New English speaking Midday Rotary Club receives its charter

Mayor Villarreal appears on radio XESQ to speak about safety concerns

Airport entrance fee of $230 pesos at the Bajio (Leon) airport to remain

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General News for July 18, 2005

What's happening in the Jardin?

Fundraising concert for Angela Peralta Theater

Florence Ershun dies at 90

San Miguel Chamber Music Festival

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General News for July 11, 2005

New fees imposed at Leon Airport

Robberies in Los Frailes

CASA's School of Midwifery will graduate its fifth class

Ecumenical celebration at St. Paul's Episcopal Church

International Guitar Festival

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The Arts - Readings; Workshops and Classes

Performing Arts

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General News for July 4, 2005

Reconstruction of the Salida a Celaya completed

Instituto Allende experiencing a new series of changes

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The Arts - Readings

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General News for June 27, 2005

Angela Peralta Theater to receive  renovation

Crossroads (Cruce de Caminos) lectures will be held June 27 through July 1

Amigos de Animales had another successful Neuter Blitz

Organizational meeting for the San Miguel Dressage Club on July 2

Tibetan monks on their World Peace Tour visit SMA

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General News for June 20, 2005

Fiestas

11 daytime burglaries in Atascadero

ATMs removed

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The Arts - Readings

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General News for June 13, 2005

It's HOT!

SMA to celebrate its 450th anniversary of its founding

Festivals

Patronato Pro Niños to have Fourth Annual Auction and Raffle

Vietnamese Zen Master Tich Dieu Thien will give talk at Meditation Center

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General News for June 6, 2005

SMA assessed for becoming a UN World Heritage city

Alternative Justice is a new instrument in SMA government

New SMA English-speaking Rotary Club will meet

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General News for May 30, 2005

New neon signs to be modified to complement local architecture

International Conference of Universal Brotherhood

Church Festivals

New English speaking Rotary Club

Center for Global Justice community discussion

American Legion Post #8 - Memorial Day services

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General News for May 23, 2005

Cell phone towers causing disputes

CFE price hike with no apparent explanations

International Conference of Universal Brotherhood in SMA with activities

Celebrations

Full moon ceremony

New nonprofit music school Anyel 

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The Arts & Performing Arts

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General News for May 16, 2005

Celebrations

Animal sterilization blitz sponsored by Amigos de Animales

San Miguel School of English commencement ceremony

Charlotte Levine dies on April 23 at  92.

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Performing Arts

Exhibitions and Openings

General News for May 9, 2005

Celebrations in SMA for the week: May 8

SMA runner Juan Carlos Chavez runs in the Boston Marathon 

Opera to SMA

Garden Club of SMA is planning to plant hardy trees  at ALMA

Taxis rates

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The Arts

Exhibitions and Openings

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General News for May 2, 2005

May fiestas in San Miguel

Ali Zerriffi becomes new president of Biblioteca Publica

Feed the Hungry raffle winner donates money back to FtH

Credit/Debit card fraud

Garden Club Calendar

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The Arts

Workshops and Classes

General News for April 25, 2005

Another airport for San Miguel

Full moon ceremonies

New business openings

Horses and riders for a dressage show and competition

Dancing with no teacher

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Performing Arts

Exhibitions and Openings

Workshops and Classes

General News for April 18, 2005

Parking and shopping center clarifiction

Proposed restructuring city departments to bring more foreign investment to the city

New 11-member Tourism Council

Native sanmiguelense Juan Carlos Chávez in Boston Marathon 

Passover Seder service

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Performing Arts

Exhibitions and Openings

General News for April 11, 2005

New shopping center and parking spaces

Ceremony and a rosary in memory of Pope John Paul II

Chamber Music Festival

Col. Philip J. Maher receives the third annual Stirling Dickinson Lifetime Achievement Award

Amigos de Animales gets new board of directors

Clubs and Organizations

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General News for April 4, 2005

New water treatment plant 

Sabor de Salsa raised over $12,500 pesos

Spring Equinox celebrated,  El Charco del Ingenio established as a Zone of Peace

Charles, Prince of Wales and his bride Camilla Parker-Bowles to visit SMA?

Fundraising garage sale for CASA on April 16 

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