SEELEY LAKE – Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction Elsie Arntzen visited Seeley Lake Elementary school to encourage students and staff on their first day of school, Wednesday, Sept. 1.

Although Superintendent Arntzen has driven though Seeley Lake many times, she has never stopped at SLE. She visited the fifth grade classroom and stopped in the lunchroom where the cooks were preparing lunch.

"Superintendent Gibbs was very welcoming as well as fifth grade teacher Jona Bartlett.  As a teacher of 23 years, it warmed my heart to be back in a school and more importantly, in a classr...