sentences:  Its school closed in 1973 and all village students then attended Bosanquet Township Central School.Since the 1880s, the village has maintained a population hovering around 500.Two mainstays have long been Arkona's Baptist Church (begun in 1840) and Arkona United Church, the successor to Arkona's Episcopal and Wesleyan Methodist Churches, both of which began in the 1850s (the Wesleyan Methodist Church building, started in 1862, remained the home of the United Church congregation until its closure in January 2008).