Someone broke into H.B. Whitehorne Middle School overnight. School Superintendent Rui Dionisio told us that a fire alarm in the school went off at about 2:30 on Sunday morning. When the Verona Police Department responded, they discovered that an area of the school had been sprayed with a fire extinguisher.
Dionisio said the damage was “minimal” but declined to provide further details on where or how the trouble occurred in the building because the Verona Police Department is investigating. He said that the school would be cleaned and made secure for HBW to open on time on Monday.
Dionisio did not put a dollar amount on the damage that had been done. But the clean-up costs will include overtime pay to the maintenance staff who had to come in today.
