Williams College Gives All-Clear After 'Suspicious' Package Found

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A suspicious package that caused the evacuation of Williams College's Wachenheim Science Center on Thursday has been determined to be not dangerous. 

 

A post on the college website at 4 p.m. stated the "device was determined not to be a bomb or other danger."

 

The college said all buildings, residences and streets are reopened that no further updates will be made. 

 

In a message to the Williams community, President Maud Mandel said she could not speak to some particulars. 

 

"There are limits on what I can share due to the fact that police are continuing to investigate and some facts simply are not known to us," she wrote.

 

Mandel said a package was delivered just after noon to Wachenheim and the person who opened it immediately called campus safety, who called both the Williamstown Police and Fire Departments. 

 

"The nature and purpose of its contents were unclear and concerning to the people involved," said the president. "As a precaution, we promptly evacuated all academic buildings, residences and streets within a set perimeter. Given that we could not rule out the possibility that the contents were dangerous, the state bomb squad was called in.