UConn Student Opens First-Ever Crepes Restaurant in Storrs Center

Dar­d­en Livesay / Whus.org / Oct. 19, 2017

After giv­ing up the sport he loved to start his first busi­ness, a stu­dent at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut spear­head­ed a new and excit­ing attrac­tion in Down­town Storrs — the cen­ter’s first-ever crepe-only restau­rant. Read more…

 

Connecticut Shoemaker Continues for Decades in Rare Trade

Dar­d­en Livesay / Pappaspost.com / Sept. 5, 2018

In a small Con­necti­cut town, a son of Greek immi­grants from Asia Minor has become a local leg­end after more than four decades as one of the area’s few shoe­mak­ers still in busi­ness. Read more…

 

 

Greek Orthodox Church Attempting to Reclaim Centuries-Old Manuscripts in U.S. Collections

Dar­d­en Livesay / Pappaspost.com / Sept. 18, 2018

More than a cen­tu­ry after extreme­ly rare Chris­t­ian man­u­scripts were tak­en from one of the old­est and most impor­tant monas­ter­ies in Greece, the Greek Ortho­dox Church has spent two years in an ardu­ous legal bat­tle try­ing to reac­quire the sacred doc­u­ments from three U.S. insti­tu­tions. Read more…

 

Unique Hellenic Museum Being Built in Downtown Storrs

Dar­d­en Livesay / Whus.org / Sept. 23, 2017

The Hel­lenic Soci­ety PAIDEIA at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut host­ed near­ly 100 sup­port­ers for an evening of dis­cus­sion, music, danc­ing and din­ing to raise funds for its forth­com­ing Spar­tan Muse­um. Read more…

 

Thousands Gather for Celebrate Mansfield Festival

Dar­d­en Livesay / Whus.org / Sept. 17, 2017

Thou­sands flocked to Storrs Cen­ter on a sun­ny after­noon to cel­e­brate dozens of local busi­ness­es, com­mu­ni­ty orga­ni­za­tions and UConn sports teams with food booths, live music and oth­er enter­tain­ment. Read more…

 

College Students Launch App to Combat Higher Education Costs

Dar­d­en Livesay / Pappaspost.com / Oct. 7, 2018

As high­er edu­ca­tion costs con­tin­ue to rise in the Unit­ed States, two alum­ni from The Col­lege of New Jer­sey have devel­oped a unique smart­phone app to make stu­dents’ lives eas­i­er. Read more…

 

 

Greek Startup Company Thriving Despite Crisis, Expanding to U.S.

Dar­d­en Livesay / Pappaspost.com / July 7, 2018

In midst of Greece’s eco­nom­ic cri­sis, one Athens-based start­up com­pa­ny has man­aged not only to thrive local­ly, but now has plans to expand to mul­ti­ple cities in the Unit­ed States. Read more…

 

 

Greek National Softball Team Aims for Olympics, Will Compete in European Championship

Dar­d­en Livesay / Pappaspost.com / July 10, 2018

The Greek Nation­al Soft­ball Team is look­ing to qual­i­fy for the 2020 Tokyo Sum­mer Olympic Games and in prepa­ra­tion will play against some of the world’s best teams lat­er this month. Read more…

 

Michigan Student Helps Vulnerable People in Athens

Dar­d­en Livesay / Pappaspost.com / July 2, 2018

Last sum­mer, one under­grad­u­ate stu­dent from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan had a life-chang­ing expe­ri­ence help­ing imper­iled peo­ple in Greece with the Athens-based non-prof­it Sol­i­dar­i­ty Now. Read more…