UPDATE: 3:05PM EST
Newtown Schools are no longer in a soft lockdown. Buses will run a bit late.
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The Newtown Bee, a local Newtown, Connecticut news source, is reporting that all Newtown schools are currently on lockdown.
The office of the Superintendent of Schools has confirmed that Newtown schools were placed in “modified lockdown” this afternoon. They did not elaborate on the nature of the threat.
The Newtown police were not immediately available to comment on the report, although there is some police activity on Church Hill Road in the area of Hawley School.
A Bee editor at the Middle School has reported that schools are now being dismissed.
This story is developing…
