By Daphne Abeel Mirror-Spectator Staff
PORTLAND, Maine — It’s not a great pun, but you could call Gerard Kaladjian the Armenian community’s “Maine Man.” Now a resident of Portland, Kaladjian, who was born in Damascus, moved here from the Boston area eight years ago with his wife and children to start a hotel, and now works [...]

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YEREVAN (Combined Sources) — Armenian President Serge Sargisian on Tuesday, July 22 confirmed that diplomats from the two nations had held meetings in Switzerland.
Sargisian invited his Turkish counterpart, President Abdullah Gül, earlier this month to watch a FIFA World Cup qualifyingmatch between Turkey and Armenia in Yerevan in September. Gül, [...]

BOSTON (Boston Globe) — After eight years of debate, the Armenian Heritage Foundation has cleared the final major hurdle in its effort to transform a prime space on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway into a park that commemorates the victims of the Armenian Genocide.
To win over detractors, who opposed using the Greenway for memorials, the [...]

NEW YORK — The Armenian Genocide Museum of America (AGMA) and the Near East Foundation (NEF) signed an agreement of cooperation on June 12 at the Foundation’s international headquarters here.
Signing the agreement on behalf of the two organizations were Van Z. Krikorian, AGMA Trustee and Building and Operations Committee chairman, and Shant Mardirossian, Near East [...]