ORIENT, Iowa -- Following a March vote that dissolved the district, Orient-Macksburg Community School held a farewell celebration Saturday in the school's gym.

The Orient-Macksburg Community School District hosted only 87 kids during its last school year, and some of them wrote their farewells in a play to the district. For those who came before, Saturday was their chance to say goodbye.

Teresa Thompson, an Orient-Macksburg graduate from the class of 1983, said that the celebration was bittersweet.

"I was a student, I was a teacher, I was an administrator. So, I've spent lots of years here with lots of people. And so we, those of us that have been at Orient-Macksburg for a long time, and we you know, we raised our children here. We graduated and now our grandchildren. And so it is, it i

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