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.

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 paraeducator, clerk and t

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