Zurich Welcomes New K-2 Teacher

When Zurich Elementary School students returned to their classrooms, saying goodbye to carefree summer days on August 18, they encountered a new teacher. Hired in late May, Mrs. Brooke Pruttis will be teaching grades K-2 for the 2021-2022 school year.

As Brooke Elliott, Pruttis graduated from Montana State University-Northern on May 1 when she completed a degree in Elementary Education with an endorsement in K-12 Reading. Later that month she signed a contract to teach in Zurich, and on June 10, she secured a hat trick when she married Kenneth Pruttis in Chinook, Montana.

"We scored big when w...