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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.
Feta, the characteristic cheese product of Greece, will continue to enjoy no import duties in the United States, the Agricultural Development & Foods Ministry said on Wednesday, following the recovation of a decision that would have added a 9.6% levy on the product.
According to the ministry, the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) notified the Greek embassy in Washington, following a query, that the intention of reclassifying customs duties on imported sheep-originating cheese to the United States would be revoked.
The ministry attributed the change to “coordinated action” by it, with the help of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Economy.
Agriculture Minister Stavros Arachovitis hailed the decision and said that “the protection of feta and, by extension, of Greek agriculture and production in general, is at the heart of our policy for an extroverted agricultural foods sector.”
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
TORONTO (AP) — Police said nine people are facing charges in what authorities are calling the biggest gold theft in Canadian history from Toronto’s Pearson International airport a year ago.
WASHINGTON, DC – The 3rd Nikos Mouyiaris Memorial Lecture which had been scheduled for April 20 at Rutgers University in New Jersey will be rescheduled for the fall of 2024 as the organizers received a call from U.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Greek-American Maria Passalaris, 25, was tragically killed in a car accident on April 12 on Highway 1 near Princeton, NJ.
The recent tragicomic events at the church of the All-Holy Taxiarhes in the area of Megalo Revma of Constantinople, specifically, the assault by Archimandrite Chrysanthos on Metropolitan Athenagoras of Kydonion which involved the slapping of the archpriest's cheeks while he was venerating the icon of the Virgin Mary, are not only lamentable but also pitiful for the Patriarchate itself.
RUMFOLD, RI – Anastasia Georgiadis, 83, of Rumford, RI, passed away peacefully surrounded by her loving family.