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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
CHARLESTON, WV – Greek-born Andrew Palmer brings a colorful background to his new role as sergeant-at-arms in the State Senate, Kenny Kemp of Gazette-Mail writes.
He’s an avid deep-sea diver and worked in security in Afghanistan and Greece. In Greece, he operated his own security firm at Platanis, a popular tourist resort.
He looks the part, the new part, a newly defined role for sergeant-at-arms in the West Virginia Senate.
In January 2016, he arrived in Charleston from Greece as the Senate’s assistant sergeant-at-arms. This year, he replaced retiring sergeant-at-arms Howard Wellman, according to Gazette-Mail.
“I’m from Crete, Greece, a small island, about 700,000 population. My father was in the Navy stationed at NSA Souda Bay.
“I was a preemie, six months and two days. My father decided he’d try to get me in a military hospital in Frankfurt, Germany. On the transport, they forgot to turn on the air to the incubator. The incubator was cracked, so I did take some air, but it was polluted. It messed up my lungs and detached my eye. I had three surgeries to put my eye back in.
“In Greece, it is mandatory to go to the army, so I joined the Fifth Ranger Division. I was sent to Rhodes, an island on the border of Greece and Turkey. They detached us for two weeks and we got sent to Afghanistan.
“Historically, the sergeant-at-arms position in the Senate is an honor position given to retired senators, police officers, delegates. It wasn’t actually asked of the sergeant of arms to do security work, but all that was changing,” Palmer says to the Charleston newspaper.
Read the full interview at the Gazette-Mail.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
NASHVILLE, ΤΝ – With a special event organized by the Hellenic Institute of Cultural Diplomacy - U.