Dispatch report

Dec. 31

•Complainant on County Road 4 reported debris.

•Complainant on E. Fletcher Street reported hazmat material.

•Complainant on White Thunder Circle reported a scam.

Luverne eighth grader Taedra McKenzie recently organized a community awareness event with a focus that was close to her heart.

As a member of Luverne Middle School-High School 

LSS meals at Generations

Monday, Jan. 19: Holiday – Closed!

Tuesday, Jan. 20: Beef stew, sliced carrots, apple dump cake, biscuit.

10 years ago (2016)

•As of Monday, Luverne High School graduate Caitlin Miller has rowed more than 1,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean.

The following article is part of the Diamond Club Member group and it appeared in The Rock County Herald on Feb. 5, 1942.

Henry Dale Zwaan, age 84, of Luverne, was called home by the Lord on Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026. He was born on Sept. 13, 1941, by Doon, Iowa, and was the son of Nick and Bertha Zwaan.

Jerome James Kraft, 74, of Willmar, passed away peacefully surrounded by his family on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, at CentraCare Rice Memorial Hospital in Willmar.

Funeral services for John Hartog, 89, West Plains, Missouri, were at 2 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026, in the Rose Chapel at Robertson-Drago Funeral Home in West Plains, Missouri.

Mr. Hartog passed away at 5:10 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026, at Brooke Haven Healthcare.

In their 2023 book, The Great Dechurching, Jim Davis and Michael Graham point out that 40 million adults used to go to church in the United States but no longer do.