Boothbay Harbor police are trying to find out who scrawled a threatening message on a high school wall that triggered the evacuation of hundreds of high school and grade school students last Thursday.
The evacuation was ordered shortly after 11 a.m. when a student found a message on a bathroom wall saying a bomb will go off at 11:30 a.m.
Police and school officials ordered the evacuation of both the high and elementary school. High school students were sent to the YMCA across the street while elementary students were marched outside the school. After a short time, they were returned to their classrooms.
High school students, many of whom were eating lunch, were marched to the YMCA until the normal afternoon dismissal time. Then a line of yellow school busses was sent to the community recreational facility to pick them up.
After a U.S. Navy bomb sniffing dog and its handler checked the school, police and firefighters cleared the scene after a visual inspection of the premises.
