Yucatan Living
Expatriates living, working & playing in Merida and the Yucatan
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Yucatan News: Eggs, Trees and the 3Rs
This week news about reforestation, the price of eggs, children get new musical instruments, a major golf tournament gets underway in the Yucatan, the senior in Peto get healthy and much more...
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Yucatan News: New US Consul
This week we meet the new US Consul, hear about craft training classes in Motul, farmer's markets in various towns around the Peninsula, tourism numbers during the summer, and the Campeche Adventure Challenge...
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Yucatan News: New Mayor Soon
This week's news includes scholarships for UADY graduates (know any?), legal logging and planting of Yucatan forests, certified chile habaneros, the effects of Ernesto on our communities and the imminent installation of Merida's new mayor...
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Yucatan News: Ernesto, Fruit, Lobsters
This week, more good news about and for dogs and children in Merida and for students in Valladolid. Information on the Merida English Library, arts classes for children, fruit prices and an update on a possible Hurricane Ernesto...
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Yucatan News: Summer and Museums
This week news about sea cucumber poaching, kids out from school, anti-smoking laws, the three Meridas, the summer museum program across Mexico and a new hospital in Motul and much more...
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Yucatan News: Peon Contreras Remodel
News about the Peon Contreras theater remodel, the release of baby turtles by children, the cost of beef, the octopus business, flamingos in formation and the puzzle of domestic tourism...
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Yucatan News: Sandals and Sports
News this week includes good news for dogs at the city pound, a city close to Merida has great sandal prices, a promise of sports support by the incoming governor of Yucatan, tourism in 2012, increase in pay for Progreso Port Police, and much more...
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Yucatan News: Chess and Christmas in July
The Yucatan news this week includes a well-attended upcoming chess tournament (all are invited!), an impressive number of Phd graduates, progress in both pre-natal care and in detection of diabetes among the population that most needs it, and, of course, the beginning of summer and la temporada. Enjoy...
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Yucatan News: New Clinic, New President
This week, details on the new vet clinic in Chelem, results of the recent vote for President and others, the reversal of the "pets in cabin" declaration, Merida gets a beautiful magazine spread and more!
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Yucatan News: Rain and Rotary
News this week includes where in the world Yucatan college students are studying, how the Rotarians and Scouts are contributing to the health and well being of the State of Yucatan and its people, the recognition of the great job done in lighting Merida's cathedral and what to expect during the upcoming elections...
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Yucatan News: Hurricanes and Growing Pains
This week, growing pains in Valladolid and growing strong in Caucel. A new idea for those who market honey, a new blog, kudos for Mexico in areas of fishing and climate change, MeetUp in Merida is having a birthday, and much much more!
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Yucatan News: Honey and Handbags
This week, the news covers everything from honey to handbags! We've got a CAPP program to help scholars in college, pet hotels, a birthday for AA in Yucatan, a lot of good information about jatropha, and much more... read all about it!
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Yucatan News: Clothes and Conferences
This week, hurricanes vs. cyclones, a conscientious wholesaler of embroidered clothing from South America, a family of Yucatecan weightlifters, the continuing story of tilapia in the Yucatan, a school fire drill in Valladolid, and much more...
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Yucatan News: Memorial Day and Cacti
News this week includes a brief moment to acknowledge Memorial Day, information about Projecto Itzaes, a medical partnership with Michigan, literary games and young entrepreneus projects. Read on...
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Yucatan News: Renewed Maya Traditions
This week, sign the petition to United Airlines about pets traveling in-cabin to Mexico, read about beach cleanup and breathalyzers, marvel at a new sports center and the renewal of old customs, and get the inside scoop on the T20 lunch at Hacienda Chichen...
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News: Yolisto!
This week, lots of news that originated on our sister site, YoListo.com... including news about the not-so-new and not-so-legal air travel rule from United Airlines and what people are doing about it, and much more...
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Yucatan News: Heat and Helmets
News this week includes a contest for local children about the Mayan culture, helmet laws, heat and health warnings, the meeting of the T20 here in Merida to discuss global tourism and great news about the increasingly humane treatment of companion animals in Merida...
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Yucatan News: Pets and Sports
This week there is news about sports, cooperation between the three cities named Merida, the corner stores we know and love, a gift from Planned Pethood to the dogs and cats of Merida and an age-old story of rivalry between two Yucatecan cities...
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Yucatan News: Ducks and Donors
News this week is full of rubber ducks, a hurricane scale update, distance learning for college classes, something called Project Yucatan and more...
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Yucatan News: Asthma and Agriculture
This week, as Semana Santa draws to a close and everyone returns to normal life, we have a lot of news about organic and hydroponic agriculture, voting for children, the growing incidence of asthma in the Yucatan and a recap of tourism numbers...
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Yucatan News: Distance Learning in Mexico
Information about the damage at the zoo, the recent killings by a suspected chupacabra, distance learning that is free in Mexico and a new Jobs Board on this website... all in this week's news!
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Yucatan News: Sailboats and Spring Break
This week, a composition written by a Merida resident and conducted by a Merida native, news about the Scouts in Yucatan, a new hyperbaric chamber for O'Horan Hospital (a first in Latin America), art in Progreso and public swimming pools...
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Yucatan News: Volunteers in Yucatan
This week in the Yucatan we find it is the beginning of the two weeks of Semana Santa. We have news about butterflies, motocross, the Equinox, Maya art and volunteering...
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Yucatan News: End of Days of the Dead
News of the Yucatan this week includes Hanal Pixan, Tony Bennett, Frommer's 2012 List of Top Destinations, where to shop on a Saturday and bus tips between Merida and Cancun...
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Yucatan News: Expat Update
This week, in celebration of our newest web family member, YoListo.com, we have news all about what expatriates are doing around the Yucatan Peninsula...
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Yucatan News: Poets and Migrants
This week, a new website by UADY, a chance to become a Charter Member of the Valladolid English Library, fashion designers in Hunucma, Migrant Poets on the US-Mexico border and a Tale of Two Cities...
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News: Underpass Open to Traffic
This week, the Paseo de Montejo underpass opened to traffic, conversational Maya courses are available online through UADY, news about tech support in the parks and the price of gasoline in Yucatan, and an update on the French sailing competition that ends in Progreso in April...
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Yucatan News: Water and Wind
This week learn about keeping your tinaco clean, about one family's experience with wind power, rattlesnakes near Oxkutzcab, an Eco Children's conference and a Mayan ceremony of Thanks...
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Yucatan News: Finance and Figure Skating
This week, a few articles about the value of the peso and the exchange rate, as well as the Yucatan in China, the Mexican Figure Skating Nationals, the Habitat program, planting trees, a strategic alliance between UADY and MIT, and additional information about Clenbuterol...
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Yucatan News: Izamal's Favorite Pope
This week, news about the beatification of the Pope, information about the Yaax Ha Ecological Center, single women adopting children in the Yucatan and the sad fact about street dogs in Progreso during Easter...
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Yucatan News: Ladies of Progreso
This week, Progreso is full of news because that is where half the state goes to enjoy the beach for Semana Santa. Also, Manzanero and Son, a new festival announced for Oxkutzcab and an upcoming domino tournament...
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Yucatan News: Ferry? Is the Ice Safe?
This week, is the ice safe in your drink? Do you want a ferry service from Florida to Progreso? Do you know why Edith Wilson met President Calderon? Do you know what they are doing in Motul these days? Did you know they found new oil fields near Villahermosa? All this and more...
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Yucatan News: Libraries and Earthworms
In the news this week, indigenous women receive huge national grants to develop crafts, the Confederation of Mexican Pork met in Merida and issued an important statement, the FIBA Championships are coming to our fair city, and earthworms are catching on...
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News: Hurricanes, Fish and Food
Read about tourism in Mexico and Yucatan, what you need to do to prepare for hurricane season, a Yucatecan Restaurant in LA and a lot more here on Yucatan Living!
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Yucatan News: Adoptions and Windmills
In the news this week, adoptions are rising in the Yucatan, windpower is gaining momentum throughout Mexico, spotlight on a locksmith in Progreso, COPARMEX does good in Kanxoc and the Brazos Abiertos House Tour is a rousing success...
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Yucatan News - Spring Break
This week's news includes lambs and sheep, the opening of the US-Mexico border to Mexican trucks, a growing population and its city parks, the good news about Spring Break and a new ambulance in Progreso...
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Yucatan News: Lobsters and Chickenpox
This week, some news about chickenpox in the Yucatan, salt flats near Rio Lagartos, free cataract surgery for Yucatecans and much more...
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Yucatan News: Dance and Tomatoes
This week, word from the farmers about tomatoes and whiteflies, Wal-Mart news, a local school district fights obesity, the reasons to plant a ramon tree, and why it is totally safe for women to travel alone in Merida...
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Yucatan News: Horses and Honey
Cenotes are in the news twice, quarterhorses were sold at auction here this week, the honey harvest looks good for this year, a son of Merida makes good in Pittsburgh and organic veggies are turning up everywhere...
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Yucatan News: It's All About Safety
We've got crime statistics, the renewal and renovation of Hacienda Tabi, a new pipe organ in Campeche, new hotels and other hotel news and public servants learning Maya to better serve their clientele... all in the news this week!
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Yucatan News: Dogs, Robot Toys, Blog
Governer Yvonne Ortega has a new blog, Merida is hosting a Robotic Toy Workshop and the government is participating in everything from humane dog euthanasia to septic tank cleaning...
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Yucatan News: Interesting People
This week, read about Aleks Syntek, born in the Yucatan. Also, the facts about gun ownership in Mexico, genetically modified corn, a traditional Maya medicine hospital facility and much more.
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Chess, Dancing and Farming in Yucatan
Puppies can no longer be sold on the street, YES is holding a money & tax seminar, a chess star is released from prison to his new job and sustainable tourism workshops ensure that traditions will continue...
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News: Yucatan Underworld
This week, find out about a youth hostel for indigenous Maya, the increase in respiratory ailments but decrease in the flu and why, why Progreso is going to be a hot spot next year, learn a bit about cenotes, and how those cruise ships contribute to Yucatan's economy...
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News: Churches and Christmas Trees
This week read about what is going on with the churches in Downtown, a group of young expat girls in Merida, coral farming in Quintana Roo and do you know what to do with your Chirstmas tree?
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News: Merida, City of Peace
This week, read about the new program for Cities of Peace, a new plant opening in Motul, what the State of Yucatan is doing about the cold weather for some of its less fortunate citizens, and much more...
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News: Safety, Parties and Baseball
Safest Airport, Christmas parties, Angel Dreams, Philadelphia Phillies, and How much did you say that turkey costs? Yucatan is a wonderland at Christmas and here is a little sprinkling of what's going on at Christmas this year.
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Yucatan News: Sustainable Tourism
As the celebrations for La Virgen wind down and the Climate Talks come to an end, we have stories about wildlife, sustainable tourism, employment in Mexico, chances to make a difference and preparations for Carnivale...
