School Closed By Bomb Threat

Students at Clark Fork Junior-Senior High School were sent home early Monday following a bomb threat that was called into the school at about 1 p.m.

School officials called for the assistance of a bomb-sniffing dog from Spokane, but it was not available until late in the day.

The bomb threat came a week after new security measures had been installed at Sandpoint High School in response to a rash of bomb threats the previous week.

Last week, school district bus drivers had been on call in the event of another threat, but on Monday they had returned to their normal routine. Students waited about an hour outside the school building while a preliminary search was made and school officials called bus drivers back to work early to take students home.