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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.
ATHENS – Greek police squads keep sweeping the country's capital and surrounding areas in the prefecture for COVID-19 health protocol compliance checks, doing 41,829 on Sept. 18 alone.
That came ahead of tighter restrictions set to go into force on Sept. 21 after so many people refused to wear masks or stay the safe social distance of at least 1.5 meters (4.92) feet apart that the number of cases keeps soaring.
Officers recorded 194 instances of individuals not wearing face masks or not observing physical distancing in public places, said Kathimerini, adding that a business a business in Attica found to have defied a midnight curfew was hit with a 10,000-euro fine ($11,839.68) and shut down for three days.
The police are stepping up checks in Athens as well as northern Greece, home to the country's second-largest city of Thessaloninki, and also on islands were cases spiked after tourists were allowed to enter starting in July.
Officers recorded 196 instances of individuals not wearing face masks or not observing physical distancing in public places, said Kathimerini, but it wasn't said if they were fined 150 euros ($177.64) as the law allows.
Defiance of health measures as well as opening the border to tourists beginning in July has seen cases soaring, now often passing 300 daily, with worries it could even get as high as 1,000 with flu season approaching and bring an even tighter lockdown.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
LA JUNTA, Colo. (AP) — Love is in the air on the Colorado plains — the kind that makes your heart beat a bit faster, quickens your step and makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up.
NEW YORK – During his recent visit to New York to participate in the opening session of the UN General Assembly, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited a fast-food stand owned by a Greek-American entrepreneur.
BOSTON – Noted businessman and well-known philanthropist Michael Psaros of New York will be honored in Athens on Monday, October 14 by the International Foundation for Greece at the Acropolis Museum.
LIMASSOL, Cyprus - With Cyprus preparing to take in people in Lebanon trying to get away from a spreading conflict that has seen Israel launch air strikes and ground movements hunting Hezbollah terrorists, about 80 Chinese citizens and their families were taken to the island.
CORINTH, Greece - A Deputy Mayor in Evrostina in the Corinth region of the Peloponnese suspected of accidentally starting a fire while tending to bee hives, the blaze destroying 16,062 acres and killing two was fined 3,000 euros ($3,308) will face additional charges.