Hamilton-Wenham Schools Responds to Bomb Threats Across the State

Hamilton-Wenham Schools have, so far, not been the victim of a rash of bogus bomb threats that have plagued Massachusetts schools in the past several days.

Over the course of four days, more than a dozen schools have been the victim of phone call and written bomb threats that have disrupted operations and led to multiple searches and evacuations. No actual threat has been uncovered.

Still, Hamilton-Wenham Regional School District Superintendent Michael Harvey explained in his Jan. 21 report to the school committee, the rash of threats prompted the district to review its crisis plan.

In addition, school administrators and staff members who answer phones at the schools and the central office were re-distributed a copy of the “Massachusetts Bomb Threat Response Guidance” from the Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad.