FARMINGTON  – Students at Mt. Blue High School and Mt. Blue Middle School will be dismissed at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday.

“Something was brought to our attention,” Leanne Condon, curriculum coordinator at RSU 9 said. “We’re making sure the students and staff are safe.”

Condon would not elaborate on what that something is.

“About mid-morning Tuesday a bomb threat was received at Mt. Blue High School,” Farmington Police Deputy Chief Shane Cote said, the second in less than a week.

Buses were scattered all over the district but were called back to transport students from both schools home at 11:30 a.m. It took about an hour to get the buses back to the school.

There is no school on Wednesday, the start of a five-day holiday weekend for the RSU 9 school district.

Elementary school students will remain and leave on their regular dismissal schedule, Condon said.

The early release after lunch was served comes at a time that allows the school credit for the day, one that won’t have to be made up.

The high school was closed last Friday after a note was received. That closure affected both students and construction workers.

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