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20 Year-Old Student's Death Leaves Community Stunned
  • Stavros Marmarinos
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  • March 20, 2010
NEW YORK -- Artemis Makas, 20, was a beautiful young girl, who was full of kindness. She managed to win over the hearts of everyone who got to know her last year, when she was named runner up in the a...
Greek Independence Parade this Sunday in Tarpon
  • Mark Schantz - The Suncoast Times
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  • March 19, 2010
TARPON SPRINGS - Sunday afternoon people in traditional costumes and floats depicting Greek history will stretch from the historic downtown to the Sponge Docks to once again mark Greek Independence Da...
Greek American Modeling Agent Pleads Guilty to Sexual Assault
  • Demetris Tsakas
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  • March 18, 2010
Modeling agent Lambros Kourakis, 60, pleaded guilty to a misdeamenor in a Manhattan Criminal court on Tues. March 16, 2010, after being accused of molesting two women in his New York City Financial Di...
New Hellenic museum to rise in Chicago's Greektown
  • Donald Liebenson - Chicago Tribune
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  • March 17, 2010
The Greektown community, still reeling from a fire last month that destroyed a number of longtime businesses, is encouraged by construction activity on the site where a new National Hellenic Museum wi...
Kiriakakis, Accused of Double Murder, Free on Bail
  • Demetris Tsakas
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  • March 13, 2010
NEW YORK - Nicholas Kiriakakis, a 25-year-old Queens restaurant/lounge owner, was released on bail on Friday following charges of double homicide and one count of criminal possession of a handgun. Bai...
Music Festival Honors Chopin’s 200th Birthday
  • Eleni Kostopoulos
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  • March 12, 2010
NEW YORK - March 1 marked the start of Chopin 200, a weeklong piano extravaganza in honor of what would have been the famous composer's 200th birthday. Pianist Eleni Traganas was among the 35 professi...
Allegations of Anti-Greek Discrimination in New York Federal Lawsuit
  • TNH staff
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  • March 12, 2010
NEW YORK - “Lazy Greeks”, “Hairy Greeks” and “off-the-boat Greeks” were among the slanders allegedly hurled at four New York brokers working at Independent Financial Group Inc (IFMG)/LPL Financial Cor...
Greek Government Spokesperson Petalotis visits TNH
  • TNH staff
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  • March 12, 2010
New York -- Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister and government spokesman Giorgos Petalotis, made a one-day visit to New York on Thursday, where he arrived from Washington after accompanying Prime Mi...
A Kefi Cafe in ‘Burg?
  • Aaron Short - YourNabe.com
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  • March 11, 2010
Is popular Greek chef Michael Psilakis, of the Upper West Side institution Kefi (505 Columbus Avenue and 84th Street), looking to bring warm feta salad, pork souvlaki, and walnut ice cream to Williams...
Anastasi Calatzis, to be buried on Friday, remembered fondly
  • Demetris Tsakas, Stavros Marmarinos and Ch. Tripoulas
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  • March 11, 2010
NEW YORK - The Community was left stunned by the suicide of 38-year-old Anastasi Calatzis. The Greek American from Queens, a top salesman for Lexus of Queens, was despondent over his ill mother and po...
Greek tragedy, as father pays for son's sins
  • A.G. Sulzberger - The New York Times
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  • March 11, 2010
The phone call came from jail, a son’s plea for help that would sorely test a father’s judgment. The son begged his father to retrieve money from a safe that the son said contained tens of thousand...
President Obama Hails Greek Philotimo in White House Tribute to Greek Independence
  • Christopher Tripoulas
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  • March 11, 2010
NEW YORK -- Greece - which has been weathering an economic firestorm in recent months - received a moral boost on Tuesday from the mouth of President Barack Obama himself. The President pledged that "...
Remarks by President Barack Obama Honoring Greek Independence Day
  • TNH staff
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  • March 10, 2010
President Barack Obama hosted the official government celebration of Greek Independence Day at the East Room of the White House on Tuesday evening, March 9, 2010. Below are remarks by President Obama:...
Reservist accused of attacking priest won't be charged
  • Tom Brennan - Tampa Tribune
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  • March 09, 2010
TAMPA - Prosecutors will not pursue charges against a Marine reservist accused of beating a Greek Orthodox priest with a tire iron. Reservist Jasen Bruce, 28, said he was only defending himself fro...
Employer and colleagues grieve for Anastasi Calatzis, Funeral Request Sent to Archdiocese
  • Demetris Tsakas
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  • March 09, 2010
NEW YORK -- Anastasi Calatzis' office at the Lexus of Queens auto dealership has remained empty ever since he took a leave in August 2009 to visit his ailing mother in Greece. The dealership's General...
A Grateful Community Bids Farewell to Fr. James Moskovites
  • Constantine S. Sirigos
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  • March 08, 2010
NEW YORK - There was not a cloud in the sky on the day when family, friends and brother clergy, led by Archbishop Demetrios of America, gathered at the Church of the Evangelismos/Annunciation to bi...
Young Greek American leaps to his death over mounting bills, foreclosure
  • Stavros Marmarinos & Christopher Tripoulas
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  • March 07, 2010
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Eight Decades Later, The Struggle for Imvros and Tenedos Continues
  • Eleni Kostopoulos
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  • March 06, 2010
NEW YORK – In 1923, the Hellenic diaspora communities of Constantinople, Imvros and Tenedos, were ceded to Turkey by the Treaty of Lausanne, though more than eight decades later, many of the legal str...
Four Greek Americans sue firm over harassment, discrimination
  • TNH staff
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  • March 05, 2010
Four Greek Americans are accusing LPL Financial Corp. over discrimination and harassment based on their ethnicity and religion. On Monday, March 1, a group of New York brokers who worked for Indepe...
Sexual harassment suit against George Delis settled by city
  • John Marzulli - New York Daily News
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  • March 04, 2010
The city has paid a $98,000 settlement to a former female staffer at Community Board 1 in Astoria who had claimed in a federal lawsuit that she was sexually harassed by former Board 1 district manager...
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