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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.
ALBANY – During a 60-year career on local radio, Chris Martin spun untold thousands of big band albums and classic compilations of old-time radio programs, Times Union reports.
“It’s been a pretty rough stretch,” said Martin, whose given name is Chris Hermedes. He changed his name for radio in 1953 during his first job at WLOG in Logan, W. Va. He got tired of people asking him to pronounce and spell his surname.
After he fell at a gas station while en route to WABY early one morning last year and fractured his hip, he had to sign off for the last time from the airwaves.
Months of hospitalizations and stays in rehabilitation facilities helped Martin, now 88, regain enough mobility so that he can move about with the aid of a walker.
His wife of 62 years, Elizabeth Hermedes, died last month at 90.
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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.
NICOSIA - A meeting between the ministers of energy for Cyprus and Israel - George Papanastasiou and Eli Cohen - led to an agreement that the countries would make an underwater electric cable link a top priority, linking them to Europe.
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.