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CUMBERLAND, R.I. --- Attendance levels were back to normal at Cumberland High School on Monday after some threatening graffiti last week apparently kept 55 percent of the student body away from school on Friday.

Supt. Donna A. Morelle said school officials had discovered the graffiti in the high school last Monday and again Thursday, which forced district officials to evacuate the campus and cancel all after school activities and sports events Thursday to search through the students' lockers.

On Friday 850 of the school's 1,531 enrolled students were absent, confirmed assistant superintendent Susan Carney.

Members of the state Fire Marshal's Office -- and a bomb squad -- had searched the high school Monday and the state fire marshal's office was again called Thursday.Morelle refused to give more information on the nature of the threats last week, saying that parents had already been notified.

This Monday, 9 percent of the student body was absent; ``we're pretty much back to normal,'' said Carney.

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