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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.
All that pent-up demand for Greek food, dance, culture, and socialization stymied by the COVID-19 pandemic broke up big time in Tallahassee, Florida with giant crowds returning to the Greek Festival.
WFSU said the event is Tallahassee’s oldest and arguably most popular ethnic food festival and hungry crowds got what they wanted in traditional Greek dancing and music, as well as Greek cuisine, such as the gyros crafted by former Tallahassee restaurateur Manny Joannos.
“We’ve got a bigger crowd than we ever had! Pent-up demand, I mean it’s been two years since we’ve done this. The people are ready for it and they’re thanking us for opening up,” Joannos said as he tried to keep up with the big lines drooling for the Greek treats. For decades, the event has been hosted by Holy Mother of God Greek Orthodox Church where Father Rob O’Laughlin is the presiding priest and top pitchman.
“Certainly the food, the culture, the dancing, the music, and our faith. So it brings everybody together,” said O’Laughlin, trying to explain why people keep coming and his church’s effort to put more ‘unity’ in the word ‘community’.
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.
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.
Brace yourself for what could be another scorching summer in Greece as scientists are anxious that a warm winter - the warmest January recorded - and climate change will continue to bring weather anomalies.
Mykonos’ run has been going on for a long time, bringing hordes of tourists, but it’s being cut down by its reputation for being rowdy, expensive, overcrowded and gouging diners while businesses evade taxes.