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Nikos Petakas is Mourned by Family and Friends
  • Constantine S. Sirigos
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  • February 03, 2012
NEW YORK – Family and friends gathered on a brilliantly beautiful February morning at the Church of St. John the Baptist in Manhattan to bid farewell to Nikos Petakas. Many others, both among the livi...
AHEPA Expands: Opens England and Bulgaria Chapters
  • TNH staff
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  • February 02, 2012
WASHINGTON, DC – The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA), a leading membership-based association for the nation's three million American citizens of Greek heritage and Philhe...
Onassis Exhibit Complements Three Hierarchs and Greek Letters Days
  • Constantine S. Sirigos
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  • February 02, 2012
NEW YORK – The current exhibition of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA) Transition to Christianity: Art of Late Antiquity, 3rd-7th Century AD, provided the perfect backdrop for t...
FL Pancyprians Honor Andy and Mike Manatos
  • Stavros Marmarinos
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  • February 02, 2012
TAMPA, FL – The Pancyprian Association of Florida honored the prominent lobbyists Andy Manatos and his son Mike with the “Kyrineia II” award during the Association’s annual Dinner-Dance at the “Ruth E...
Mayor Bloomberg Visits Transfiguration Church in Corona (Photos)
  • January 30, 2012
NEW YORK - Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg chose the Church of the Transfiguration in Queen’s Corona neighborhood to announce the success of one of his major anti-poverty initiatives. SaveUSA is a federal ...
Hearing on Redistricting Plan Threatening Astoria to be Held on February 7
  • January 27, 2012
[NOTE FROM The National Herald: Community leaders have begun to mobilize citizens against a plan that would cut the vibrant Astoria Community in half.A hearing on the redistricting plan will be held o...
Sophia Stavrakis Named TNH Teacher of the Year
  • Constantine S. Sirigos
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  • January 27, 2012
NEW YORK – For the 19th straight year, The National Herald-Ethnikos Kyrix celebrated the devotion and energy of the Community’s teachers. Sophia Stavrakis, director of the Greek school of the Church ...
Elias Neofytides Opens the First Greek-American Library in New York City
  • Constantine S. Sirigos
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  • January 26, 2012
NEW YORK – Every January the Greek-American community celebrates Greek Letters Day, but how many of us do anything about it? Elias Neofytides knows that those letters live in books, and books need hom...
World Champion Dimas to Lead Boston Parade
  • Theodore Kalmoukos
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  • January 26, 2012
BOSTON, MA – Pyrros Dimas, an Olympic and world champion weightlifter, will be one of the grand marshals in this year’s annual Greek Independence Day Parade in Boston – primarily organized by the Fede...
UN International Holocaust Commemoration Day Marked in NY
  • Constantine S. Sirigos
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  • January 26, 2012
NEW YORK – Thirty three countries were represented by 63 diplomats at the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan on January 21, and although they were only a fraction of the UN’s membership of nearly 200 co...
"Willie and the Hand Jive" singer Johnny Otis dies at 90
  • January 22, 2012
By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES. (Reuters) - Johnny Otis, (Ιoannis Alexandres Veliotes) singer of the 1958 hit "Willie and the Hand Jive", has died in California at the age of 90. Otis died on Tuesda...
TNH Writer Taking Case To Supreme Court
  • TNH staff
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  • January 19, 2012
Media giants do not have a problem requesting federal mugshot photos from outlets in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, or Tennessee. Outside of news circles, however, few know that such photos are available o...
New York’s Hellenic Professionals Cut Vasilopita to Welcome 2012
  • Constantine S. Sirigos
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  • January 19, 2012
MANHATTAN – The five leading Hellenic American professional organizations in New York hosted their annual vasilopita – St. Basil cake - cutting for members and friends in the ballroom of the Archdioce...
Astoria Parishioners Are Vigilant about Being Able to Choose New Priest
  • Theodore Kalmoukos
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  • January 19, 2012
ASTORIA – A crisis is boiling in yet another Greek Orthodox parish in America, this time at the St. Demetrios Cathedral in Astoria, one of the largest parishes of the Archdiocese, and the one that sus...
Rangos Competition Brings Young Talent Together at Johns Hopkins
  • Evan C. Lambrou
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  • January 19, 2012
BALTIMORE, MD – In what is now swiftly being hailed among the medical and scientific community as an innovative way to bring bright young minds together for the express purpose of invigorating cancer ...
Greek Director’s Payne’s Hit Film: Descendants
  • Constantine S. Sirigos
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  • January 19, 2012
NEW YORK – The 2012 Golden Globe Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 15 were dripping with glamor, but for serious Greek-American film fans not overwhelmed by the fashionistas and the m...
Greek Educator Discusses that His Mom was Slain When He was a Baby
  • By Demetios Tsakas and Constantine Sirigos
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  • January 19, 2012
NEW YORK – The memories are still fresh. Indeed, they are open wounds. The cold-blooded murder of Areti Koularmani and the shattering aftermath lived by her husband Dimitrios Koularmanis and her three...
Greek American Family Survives Cruise Ship Crash
  • Constantine S. Sirigos
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  • January 17, 2012
NEW YORK – More than 4,200 passengers and crew were on board The Costa Concordia when it crashed off the island of Giglio near the Italian coast on January 13. The Associated Press (AP) reported that ...
Greek-Αmericans Among Passengers on the Costa Concordia
  • January 15, 2012
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Los Angeles resident Jonathan Garcia says his wife, Debbie Ananias’s family described the experience as something like “being on the Titanic. His wife’s parents and two sisters ...
Johns Hopkins University Doctors Reflect on John Rangos' Contribution Ahead of Ceremony
  • Evan C. Lambrou
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  • January 14, 2012
BALTIMORE – Some of the most highly respected scientists and physicians at Johns Hopkins University explained their mission and extolled Greek American philanthropist John G. Rangos’ virtues and commi...
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