As you know, we cancelled school today because of possible threats of violence to some area schools that may have included our district. We were informed that we were included in threats with Dawson Bryant Schools in Lawrence County. The Lawrence County Sheriff confirmed that Eastern Local School District was not mentioned in the threat that they are investigating. In our investigation, we found that an "Eastern" school district in Louisville, Kentucky received a voicemail threat on September 9th that was found to be not credible. We believe that threat is still moving through the internet and was possibly seen by someone in our area. On another note, the Pike CTC went into lockdown this morning to investigate a possible threat that was found to be not credible. As we have found that there was no threat made regarding Eastern (Pike) Local School District, we are resuming regularly scheduled activities at 3:00 p.m. today and we will be operating on a regular schedule tomorrow, Thursday, September 12th. Thank you for your patience and understanding in this matter.
Rick Bowman
Superintendent