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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.
One of Astoria's Greek restaurant landmarks, Neptune Diner, isn't going to close because of the COVID-19 pandemic and instead is taking a chance, opening another branch in Bayside, Queens, betting people will come.
A manager not named told the news site QNS of the risk: “By the looks of it, we’re all going to be closed down soon. However, there’s an idea that’s going around that the Astoria location is closing, and that’s false,” the report said.
It's uncertain when the new Neptune Diner will open at the site of the former Jackson Hole restaurant at 35-01 Bell Boulevard, which closed during the crisis because indoor dining in New York might be curbed.
Customers who've come for generations sure hope not because Neptune has lured them with Greek specialties and omelettes and traditional diner food, the kind you can only get at a place out of a Harry Mark Petrakis short story.
Pat Perulli, owner of the Bayside Milk Farm next door, told the site he's glad it's coming. “I’ve heard good things from customers coming from Astoria about Neptune Diner. We have a lot of Greek customers.”
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.