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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.
When the COVID-19 pandemic caused the Athens Diner in Colchester, Vermont to shut down for three months earlier this year, the 11 workers were out of work but not out of a job.
They returned in June for the reopening. “We're like a big family,” said General Manager Christine Levallee, the Milton Independent said in a report.
“We wouldn't even be able to be open without all these people, stepping up and helping. They are great folks, every one of them,” she said, adding that besides friendship that they share a passion for food and hard work.
Her paternal grandfather immigrated to Canada from Greece, before moving to the United States and settling in Vermont. Her brother and sister-in-law, Bill and Naomi Maglaris, took ownership of Athens Diner in 2012.
They added some Greek specialties in the unique 1950s railcar but acknowledged the unprecedented health crisis is making it difficult because they are limited to only 50 percent capacity, with the cold Vermont winter about to set in.
Some days, she said, there's only a few customers at the linoleum counter but there's a family waiting for them.
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.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.