The Weekly Post was a weekly newspaper published in Rainsville, Alabama

Rainsville, Alabama

Rainsville is a city in DeKalb County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 4,499. Rainsville is located on top of Sand Mountain.Rainsville was incorporated in October 1956....

 by Southern Newspapers and serving the DeKalb County, Alabama

DeKalb County, Alabama

As of the 2010 Census DeKalb County had a population of 71,109. The median age was 37.5. The racial and ethnic makeup of the population was 81.6% non-Hispanic white, 1.5% African American, 1.4% Native American, 0.3% Asian, 0.2% Pacific Islander , 9.9% from some other race, 2.2% reporting two or...

 region.
The Weekly Post was founded in 1986 by the editor and former employees of The Sand Mountain News, the previous Rainsville newspaper which had ceased publication due to bankruptcy

Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy is a legal status of an insolvent person or an organisation, that is, one that cannot repay the debts owed to creditors. In most jurisdictions bankruptcy is imposed by a court order, often initiated by the debtor....

. In 2010, it was merged into the Times-Journal

Times-Journal

The Times-Journal is a daily newspaper published in Fort Payne, Alabama and serving the DeKalb County, Alabama region.The Times-Journal is a Southern Newspapers publication. The Times-Journal resulted from the merger in 1959 of the Fort Payne Journal, first published in 1878, and the Times-New Era...

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External links

• Official website (Archive)