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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.
DETROIT – Detroit’s 20th annual Greek Independence Day Parade was held this year on April 10 in the city’s famous Greektown. The fine weather helped draw a great crowd to commemorate 201 years of Greek independence from Ottoman oppression.
Parade organizer Lou Pavledes spoke with WWJ Newsradio 950 prior to the parade noting that everyone was “really hyped” for the event. He told WWJ that “it’s a big deal for not just Greektown, but the entire downtown area.”
“It’s not a real long parade, but it’s just something that we want to do to not only keep within the Greektown borders, essentially, but also because people then will file into the different restaurants and so forth,” Pavledes told WWJ.
His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America was welcomed by Metropolitan Nicholas of Detroit and members of the community at the Somerset Inn Hotel in Troy, MI on April 9. On Sunday, His Eminence presided over the Divine Liturgy at the Annunciation Cathedral in Detroit and then participated in the Greek Independence Day Parade which began at 3 PM.
Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist and his family were among the guests attending the parade which was followed by a street festival in Greektown.
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.