GOLD CREEK — As schools across Montana reach the end of their year, it’s a much more significant moment for one rural school in Powell County, which will soon be closing its doors for the final time.

Jonathon Ambarian

For more than 100 years, if you entered a building on the south side of the small community of Gold Creek, you’d hear the sounds of kids in school. But since 2022, that’s all changed: The last of the students are gone, and now the building is quiet.

“It's very odd, it feels empty and almost without a personality – that part's kind of gone,” said Linda Hogan, clerk of the Gold Creek School District.

(Watch the video for a look inside the Gold Creek School.) Gold Creek School closing for final time

Hogan has been connected with the school for about 35 years, as a paraed

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