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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 – Looks like nothing – including the receding COVID-19 pandemic – will keep Greece in 2022 from blowing past the previous record year of 2019 for tourism, with October showing its highest occupancy rates ever for that month.
Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias said that’s being boosted by people continuing to go to islands which traditionally have been mostly summer attractions with beaches luring people.
Americans are leading the charge, returning to travel again after two years of lockdowns and slowdowns and eager to take vacations, Greece reaching out to people to come in the autumn and year-round.
“The occupancy rates in Pelion, Mani, Trikala, Corinthia, and Arachova already exceed 90 per cent, 95 per cent in Vytina and Dimitsana, very high occupancy rates in Epirus, while there are also destinations where it is now very difficult to find accommodations at all.
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.