PRIEST LAKE — Tommy Hansen has been selected as the new principal at Priest Lake Elementary.

"I am thrilled to begin to work with the students and teachers at the school to not only better prepare them for their life in secondary school, but also to watch them grow into the amazing people that I know they will become," Hansen said in a recent West Bonner County School District social media post.

Hansen said he was excited to be selected for the position, saying he'd dreamed of attending the school as a youth. His grandparents had a "no running water-type of rustic" cabin near Priest Lake, a place he loved spending time.

"I spent most of my free time while I was growing up at the cabin and in the mountains of the area, passing by the school hundreds of times," Hansen said.

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