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Keeney Street Elementary School in Manchester and Ruth Chaffee Elementary School in Newington are closed on Friday because of the letters.
The Keeney school's main office received a letter contained white powder and a message about al-Qaida.
The school was placed in lockdown around 2 p.m, and remained on lockdown until students were dismissed at 3:25 p.m., their normal dismissal time.
It was the second school in Connecticut to receive a letter with white powder on Thursday.
The Ruth Chaffee Elementary School in Newington was evacuated after receiving a letter with white powder. It’s not clear if the school received a message about al-Qaida.
Students in kindergarten and first grade were moved to John Paterson, while students in grades 2, 3 and 4 were moved to John Wallace Middle School, according to the school district's Facebook page.
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All evening activities at the school were canceled Thursday, and the school is closed Friday.
A state Hazmat team also responded to the Rowland Government Center in Waterbury for a white powder scare around 4 p.m.
An employee on the fifth floor opened an envelope and saw white powder inside. The building was evacuated while police, fire officials and the FBI investigated.
The building, which is at 55 West Main St., will also remain closed Friday.
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And today being friday we've not analyzed the powder yet?
Hard to say its a student prank when all that is being targetted are elementary schools. If it was a high school pranker he would have sent to to his high school. Angry teacher or parent? A real terrorist attack or warning? Town nutjob?
They'll find out if the powder is dangerous, first, as there are lots of harmless white powders around. This doesn't sound like Al-Quida to me, they like things that go "bang" or "Boom" much more then toxic materials that they could kill themselves with first.
What this does sound like is a idiot kid or idiot adult playing what they'd call a joke, or some jerk mad about what schools are teaching or not teaching or some such tripe. If so, they will very likley have made a mistake and be caught. And then they will end up wearing their tail-ends decorated with bootprints for a hat, with people lining up to add to the decorations. At the very least.
That's one way to get a long weekend. Wish someone would do that at my workplace.
That's just it, and elementary kid wouldn't do this. So taking off from school is probably not the motivating factor. I'm thinking town nutjob.
nightwalker Anthrax simply doesn't go "boom..." Until it gets inside you of course...
http://www.enotes.com/anthrax-terrorist-use-biological-weapon-reference/anthrax-terrorist-use-biological-weapon
That's all fine and dandy, but if this were even close to being dangerous there would have been "Breaking News" banners all over the place. Its probably harmless powder.
And the white powder was or might be........what? "Breaking News" MSNBC to provide you another vague story without key notations to highlights within the headline s and articles. Our motto; "Keep you guessing, keeps you coming back (but we still won’t tell you)"
I remember a time when finding a white powdery substance in an envelope was a good thing...
Right on! LOL
In the old days you didn't report it.
If you did report it, by the time the authorities got to the scene all the evidence was gone! LOL
And my teeth were grinding..
TFNJ, I spilled my coffee on my shirt after reading your last post. Halirious!
LOL!
I can't believe someone would be so low as to send a white power letter to an elementary! How far will these racist organizations go? Children should not be subjected to ................what's that? Ohhhhhhh, you said "white powder". My bad.
Why don't they have any idea of what the pouder is? I mean come on somebody man up and dip your pinky finger in there and taste it! Lol! I'm sorry had to do it. But seriously whats wrong with people these days!?
Maybe the white powder was sent to one of the teachers or the pricipal for their own recreational use! LOL
The janitor did it.. lol