General News
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.
NEW YORK – Anastasia Fox, 28, was killed in an accident on Mykonos on October 23 when the ATV she was riding on collided with a car, News 12 Long Island reported. A social worker and graduate of Bay Shore High School, Fox was celebrating her birthday on the island a few days before the accident which also injured two other people, the report continued.
The Suffolk County resident has family in Ronkonkoma who “are working with Greek authorities to have her body brought back to Long Island” and “with Rep. Peter King’s office to get her home as soon as possible,” News 12 reported, adding that “the Congressman says he is working with officials at the Greek embassy.”
Fox’s aunt, Kelly Anderson, told News 12 about her niece, “Her laugh, her voice… you could pick her out in a crowd. She would light up a room.”
A GoFundMe campaign has been set up by the family to help with the funeral costs. https://www.gofundme.com/f/funeral-arrangements-for-anastasia-fox.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
CLOSTER, NJ – The well-attended Greek Independence Day Celebration in Closter, NJ, took place on March 25, beginning with the Flag Raising Ceremony at Ruckman Park in Closter.
ALBANY – New York State Assemblyman Michael Tannousis (R, C-Staten Island/Brooklyn) on March 26 was joined in Albany by His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America to recognize Greek Independence Day and the 50th anniversary of the illegal Turkish invasion and continued occupation of Cyprus.
ATHENS - Historic member of PASOK and passionate advocate of the recognition of Pontian Greek genocide Michalis Charalambidis died on Wednesday aged 73.
ATHENS - While the New Democracy government denied audio files from the 2023 head-on train crash in Tempe which killed 57 had been tampered with, five managers at the state-run OSE railways agency reportedly had access to them.
FAIRVIEW, NJ – The Greek Cypriots of New Jersey under the auspices of the Federation of Cypriot American Organizations, the Consulate General of the Republic of Cyprus in New York and Consul General of Cyprus Michalis Firillas will commemorate the 69th Anniversary of the EOKA Liberation Struggle of Cyprus from British Colonial Rule 1955-1959, with a memorial service at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Ascension, 101 Anderson Avenue in Fairview, NJ, on Sunday, March 31.