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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.
KALAMATA – According to several Greek media sources, an American couple who had been missing in southern Greece since January 23 were discovered dead in a ravine on Mount Taygetos near Kalamata on Friday. The couple, David Harrison Robinson, 83, and his wife Lukretia, 80, were living permanently in Dapia of the Messinia prefecture in the southwestern Peloponnese.
They were last seen driving their blue Opel car eastward before they were reported missing. The Greek police’s drone located their car, and their bodies were found nearby in the southern Peloponnese on Friday afternoon.
The Fire Brigade and its disaster rescue team EMAK, as well as volunteers from Messinia, made efforts to retrieve the bodies from the ravine before nightfall. A formal confirmation of their identity is pending.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast Thursday have returned to sea, while 29 died on the shore, officials said.
BAYSIDE, NY – Daughters of Penelope (DOP) Ilion Chapter 135 continues to keep the light shining bright within.
NEW YORK – Mike Labatos, AHEPA District 6 Lt.
Cretans are known for loving their guns but the island has the dubious record of having the highest rates of suicide in Greece over the last 25 years, averaging 2.
ATHENS - Forgetting the 2010-18 economic and austerity crisis that saw people so desperate they were picking food out of rubbish and supermarket bins, Greeks are among the European countries with the ignominious title of food wasters.