BUXTON – Classes at Bonny Eagle High School were canceled Tuesday following a bomb threat, which police were still investigating Wednesday.

According to Cumberland County Chief Deputy Naldo Gagnon, the department is not releasing details of how the threat was delivered. He also won’t release information on the investigation or if the department has any leads in the case.

The threat was made Monday and indicated a bomb would go off on Tuesday at the high school, located on the Buxton/Standish line. Deputies and a bomb-sniffing dog searched the school Monday afternoon but found nothing. The school principal, Beth Schultz, said that the school would be closed on Tuesday for student safety.

On Tuesday, the high school was desolate while the nearby Bonny Eagle Middle School was in session. With the day off, ninth-graders Brian Rollins and John Cogswell, who live near the school complex, decided to spend the rainy day fishing.

“This is the second one of the year,” Rollins said, referring to the threat called in earlier this year by a student using a smart phone. Investigators were able to apprehend the student by “pinging” his location with the phone’s built-in GPS. The student was later expelled. “So we’re just hanging out, fishing on Bonny Eagle Pond,” Rollins added.

Rollins said students don’t know who did it but suspect it’s a copy-cat act.

“It was 11 years before we had the first one, and now there’s another. Kids are just thinking the person who did probably thinks it’s a cool thing to do,” Rollins said. “On Facebook people are saying stuff like ‘here we go again,’ and ‘we wish these kids would grow up,’ stuff like that.”

Cogswell added that “people aren’t very happy about it,” with Rollins saying students are eager to finish the school year off, which doesn’t end until June 24.

Although the students won’t have to attend an additional day of classes, the bomb threat canceled a concert to be held Tuesday night.