The Mancelona Middle School had a surprise visitor on Monday.
According to Michael Walton of the Traverse City Record-Eagle, around 9 a.m. a black bear lumbered onto school grounds.
The school’s principal, Chad Culver, was meeting with a teacher when he first spotted the bear.
"Literally out by the bike rack, which is about 20 feet from my window, was a black bear," Culver said
The bear prompted a 10-minute stay-in-place lockdown. Students were not allowed to leave the building. Shortly after the lockdown went into effect, the bear was spotted crossing U.S. 131 west of town.
