Online threat puts McIntosh School in hard lockdown on first day of classes

  • Back to School Finding their new locker is on every student’s checklist on the first day of school. Here Reed Winterberg, Azalea Grage and Lochlyn Goldade find theirs. Photo by Kathy Nelson
    Back to School Finding their new locker is on every student’s checklist on the first day of school. Here Reed Winterberg, Azalea Grage and Lochlyn Goldade find theirs. Photo by Kathy Nelson

    Students and staff at the McIntosh School were briefly locked down on the opening day of the 2025-26 school year last Wednesday, Aug. 13, after a student posted a threat to the school on social media.

    Following its safety protocols, the McIntosh School went into a “hard lockdown” at about 9:19 a.m. after being notified of a potential threat by the Bureau of Indian Affairs Police and the Corson Coun…