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SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Some Easter season "hopping" took on a different meaning in the Electric City. Nearly two dozen participating businesses, including the boutique Burlap & Bourbon, took part on Saturday in what's called Hop Around Downtown.

The event encouraged customers to check out spring lines of merchandise and do a little shopping for easter.

One merchant who has been making and assembling eyeglasses for 45 years sees the importance of how this could help build up the customer base.

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PLAINS TOWNSHIP, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A special easter egg hunt is helping local children with visual impairments experience holiday fun in their own unique way. Northeast Sight Services held its Annual Beeping Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday at the East Mountain Holiday Inn near Wilkes-Barre.

About 30 impaired kids and their siblings took part.

They used sound to find the eggs and build important skills like independence, mobility, and spatial awareness.

April snow showers brought out over 200 volunteers to local ski resort

SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — It's said April showers bring May flowers, but on Saturday, April snow showers brought out more than 200 volunteers armed with rakes, shovels, and saplings. They braved wintry conditions to help a local ski resort.

It might be springtime, but atop Montage Mountain Saturday morning, it was a winter wonderland. Volunteers who turned out in droves were not there to ski.

They made their way up and down the white snow-covered mountain to help make it greener thanks to a project called "GROW."

Organizers hosted a memorial service in Hazleton to mourn those lost in the collapse. Newswatch 16's Valeria Quinones shows us how the victims are being remembered.

Dickson City Fire Department hosted a training for firefighters that taught them life-saving measures with a real-life example on Saturday.

The union representing Geisinger nurses announced a new contract covering over 800 nurses at three locations that improves wages, benefits, and safety.

The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by 19 Democratic state attorneys general who sued over privacy issues.

Israel has vowed to seize large parts of Gaza to pressure Hamas to release remaining hostages, but it's unclear where Palestinians are meant to go.

The family of five had meant to celebrate one of their children's birthdays in the United States.

The staggering tariffs could mark the end of an era of inexpensive consumer goods in America.