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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.
Boston is a hub for Greek-American food and diners, a treasure for hungry Hellenophiles and foodies too, and now another dining spot is being added in the West Roxbury neighborhood with Maria’s Kitchen, which will be offering the kind of traditional food for which Greeks are famous.
The restaurant, said 10 Boston, will take over three vacant spaces within a building that the restaurant owners purchased.
City of Boston licensing board records indicate it will open on the busy and popular Centre Street, with the website for the dining spot saying that it will be bringing “flavor, family-style cooking, and livelihood” to a building that had been home to a takeout pizza spot, a hair salon, and a small office previously.
The owners of the eatery say on the site they have been in the restaurant business for more than 35 years, with the report indicating that it will be operated by Dimitris Meletlidis, who has been involved with dining spots/pizzerias in West Roxbury, Chelsea, and Revere over the years, according to an old Chelsea Record article.
Maria’s Kitchen will offer pizza, calzones, sandwiches, pasta dishes, seafood, and Greek dishes.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
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LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".
ATHENS - Disregarding the recommendation of a prosecutor who said there wasn’t enough evidence, an Athens Mixed Jury Court found a 55-year-old man guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl but found her mother innocent of pornography.