Hundreds of Catholic devotees gather on the highest point of the island to celebrate the Good Friday tradition. It was led by the procession and raising of the wooden cross on the peak MtTapotchao.
Typhoon Kong-Rey moved quickly toward the Marianas with its packing winds of up to a hundred miles per hour on April 3. The typhoon caused minor power outages on Saipan, particularly Kagman, Dandan, and the entire southern part of the island.
Hundreds of NMC students including NMC faculty, NMC administration officials, and some CNMI community members joined the community college in the candlelight vigil for the four Korean students who died in the Forbidden Island tragedy on March 23.