By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer
The John Witherspoon Middle School on Walnut Lane was evacuated briefly Wednesday morning, following a phoned-in bomb threat that turned out to be a hoax.
The Princeton Police Department conducted a thorough search of the middle school and the surrounding area in response to the bomb threat, which was phoned in to the school’s main office at 10:45 a.m.
The students and staff were taken across the street to the Princeton High School gym while police searched the middle school. Students were allowed to return after police deemed it was safe.
Police officers will remain in the area throughout the day.
The computer-generated phone call received by the middle school is similar to calls received by Princeton High School and the Riverside Elementary School last week. Police searched those schools as well, but nothing was found.
