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AHEPA Honors AHI President for Public Service
  • TNH staff
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  • April 26, 2012
WASHINGTON, DC – AHEPA Family members and friends recently gathered to honor excellence in public service and the community at a "Salute to Civic Responsibility" Dinner at the Hart Senate Office Build...
Despite Bad Weather, Greeks Parade in Boston
  • Theodore Kalmoukos
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  • April 26, 2012
BOSTON, MA – The Greek-American community of New England held its 18th annual Greek Independence Day Parade in Boston on April 22. The heavy rains, along with the strong wind, a temperature of only 48...
Two Distinguished Greek-Americans on Greek Ballot
  • Demetris Tsakas
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  • April 26, 2012
NEW YORK – Two prominent members of the Greek-American community have been placed on the at-large election lists of the New Democracy (ND) and PASOK parties. On April 24 it was announced that entrepre...
The Athenians’ Society Spotlights Community’s Authors at Book Exposition
  • Constantine S. Sirigos
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  • April 23, 2012
NEW YORK – The Athenians’ Society, Inc. of New York presented its “ Exposition of Hellenic Writers of the Diaspora” at the Petros G. Patrides Cultural Center of Saint Demetrios Cathedral of Astoria o...
PA Head Says All Clear for New St. Nick’s in Time for Parish’s 100th Anniversary in 2016
  • Constantine S. Sirigos
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  • April 22, 2012
NEW YORK – Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney hosted a Town Hall Meeting at Astoria’s Stathakion Center on April 21 to discuss issues of importance to the Hellenic Community, including the agreement bet...
Alma Bank, Astoria, New York, Assumes All of the Deposits of Fort Lee Federal Savings Bank, FSB, Fort Lee, New Jersey
  • April 20, 2012
Fort Lee Federal Savings Bank, FSB, Fort Lee, New Jersey, was closed today by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receive...
J.P. Morgan Chase’s Golden Greek Boys
  • April 20, 2012
By Erik Schatzker, Christine Harper and Mary Childs Bloomberg NEW YORK- J.P Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM) Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon has transformed the bank’s chief investment office in the ...
Greek Restaurateur Serving in Attica Prison Claims He is Innocent
  • Constantine S. Sirigos
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  • April 19, 2012
NEW YORK – Vassileios Giamagas’ life took a detour Greek-Americans are familiar with only through novels, television, and the movies. Now at the tops of all the professions in the United States, few w...
Poetry Reading is Part of the Kouros Gallery’s Exhibit to Benefit Greece
  • Constantine S. Sirigos
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  • April 19, 2012
NEW YORK – Building the New Greece will require hard work, along with imagination and creativity. Artists don’t have a monopoly on that, but thinking outside the box comes more easily to them. On Apri...
Assemblywoman Simotas Strives to Save her Alma Mater, Bryant High
  • Constantine S. Sirigos
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  • April 19, 2012
NEW YORK – New York State Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas held a rally in her Astoria district in early April to oppose the NYC Department of Education’s plans to close William Cullen Bryant High Schoo...
Billionaire, 85, Wants Students to Care About Deficits
  • April 17, 2012
NEW YORK. (Bloomberg). At 85, billionaire Peter G. Peterson is old enough to be the father of ex-President Bill Clinton. Some of today’s college students could be his great-grandchildren. Peterson say...
Lowell Man Arrested While Attending Greek Easter Gathering
  • April 16, 2012
PELHAM, N.H. (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - A 28-year-old Massachusetts man on the run from the police was arrested at a family gathering in New Hampshire on Sunday. Police took Aris N. Karamousianis...
Homemade Bomb Shakes Tarpon Springs on Greek Easter
  • April 16, 2012
(TBO) -- An explosion blew out windows in downtown Tarpon Springs and injured nearby revelers ushering in Greek Orthodox Easter early Sunday morning. Someone detonated a homemade bomb on the roof o...
AHEPA Takes 84th Annual Excursion
  • TNH staff
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  • April 12, 2012
WASHINGTON, DC – The Order of AHEPA and its affiliated organizations, the Daughters of Penelope and Maids of Athena, continued its 84th annual overseas excursion with a visit to the Republic of Cyprus...
Illinois Hellenic-American Enosis Treasurer Sues the Federation’s Head
  • Theodore Kalmoukos
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  • April 12, 2012
CHICAGO, IL – Angie Verros, Treasurer of Enosis – the Federation of the Hellenic-American Organizations of Illinois – has filed a lawsuit against the organization’s president Demetris Georgeakopoulos,...
Holy Week Throughout the NY Metropolitan Area
  • Constantine S. Sirigos
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  • April 12, 2012
NEW YORK – Thousands of Greek Orthodox communities around the world, hundreds across the country, and dozens in the New York Metropolitan area will celebrate Pascha on April 15. Holy Week reaches a gl...
CEO Bornozis Recognized
  • TNH staff
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  • April 12, 2012
NEW YORK – Greek shipping companies move a high percentage of the world’s freight. As one of Greece’s two dominant industries, it is crucial to Greece’s current well-being and to its future, and it i...
Demetrios Brings Check for $500,000 To Greece for Crisis
  • Constantine S. Sirigos
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  • April 12, 2012
NEW YORK – During a visit to Greece while he was en route to Constantinople to participate in the solemn service the Holy Myrrh, Archbishop Demetrios of America presented Ieronymos II, Archbishop of ...
A Picture of Hope
  • Antonis H. Diamataris - Publisher/Editor of The National Herald
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  • April 11, 2012
At 11 a.m. on Holy Wednesday, a tall, well-built man who looks well for his age walked through the imposing entrance of a mansion on Dionysiou Aeropagitou Street, just a few meters away from the Acrop...
New Greek Political Party Introduced to Community
  • Constantine S. Sirigos
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  • April 08, 2012
NEW YORK – Elena Kountoura, a member of the Greek Parliament for the Athens A’ district and a member of the new “Anexaertiti Ellines - Independent Greeks” parliamentary alignment, introduced her party...
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