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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.
“History will judge whether I was a good mayor for Thessaloniki,” outgoing mayor Yiannis Boutaris said in an interview with the Athens-Macedonian News Agency released on Saturday, just two days before he is due to hand over the office to his successor, Konstantinos Zervas.
The ceremonies to swear in the new mayor and handover the mayorship will take place on Monday, in the municipal council chamber.
As he packed away his things in boxes, Boutaris said he had not in the least regretted his decision not to stand in the last local government elections after nine years in the mayor’s office, where his often unconventional approach generated publicity for Thessaloniki.
“Everyone started talking about the city and there were articles published,” he pointed out, while he highlighted his meetings with the former German Ambassador to Greece Jens Ploetner, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, historian Mark Mazower and British novelist Victoria Hislop as the most memorable in that time.
He predicted that policing will be one of the thorniest issues for his successor, since the municipal police has fewer staff than are needed to solve traffic problems.
As for his plans after August 30, when he departs from the town hall, Boutaris said that he will be installed in his new office set up in the space for the Holocaust Museum and then visit his vineyards for the harvest.
“I also want to spend a few days having a holiday, a complete rest. I will miss daily life in the town hall and that is only human. But I believe that I will be over this in a week or so because I will create other jobs,” he said.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Three Russian missiles slammed into a downtown area of the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Wednesday, hitting an eight-floor apartment building and killing at least 13 people, authorities said.
TORONTO - Toronto Raptors player Jontay Porter was banned for life from the NBA on Wednesday after a league probe found he disclosed confidential information to sports bettors and wagered on games, even betting on the Raptors to lose.
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday his country would be the one to decide whether and how to respond to Iran’s major air assault earlier this week, brushing off calls for restraint from close allies.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Wednesday he strongly supports a proposal from Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson to provide aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, sending crucial bipartisan support to the precarious effort to approve $95 billion in funding for the U.
BRUSSELS - European Union leaders over a two-day summit of the special European Council will discuss economic and competitiveness issues in Ukraine, Türkiye, the Middle East and Lebanon, stated Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis upon his arrival in Brussels on Wednesday night.