Mountain Valley News

Mountain Valley News A weekly hometown newspaper covering DeKalb County, Alabama

11/24/2025

Rainsville City Council Meeting

11/24/2025

Turkey Day is almost here! Let’s keep things safe (and stress-free) when preparing your holiday meal.

Thaw your turkey in the refrigerator. Keep it in the original wrapping and place it in a container to catch any juices.
Allow about 24 hours of thawing for every 4–5 pounds:
• 4–12 lbs: 1–3 days
• 12–16 lbs: 3–4 days
• 16–20 lbs: 4–5 days
• 20–24 lbs: 5–6 days

Never thaw a turkey on the counter! After just 2 hours at room temperature, it can enter the “danger zone” where bacteria multiply quickly.

Geraldine’s postseason ends in the quarterfinals, but what a run it was. 🏈
11/23/2025

Geraldine’s postseason ends in the quarterfinals, but what a run it was. 🏈

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FINAL FOUR BOUND! The Bears punched their ticket to the Class 4A semifinals after a 28-7 win. 🔥🏈🐻
11/23/2025

FINAL FOUR BOUND! The Bears punched their ticket to the Class 4A semifinals after a 28-7 win. 🔥🏈🐻

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11/22/2025

This dog will be held on a 7 day stray hold. If this is your dog or you know who it belongs to please contact us right away!

Dekalb County-AL Animal Adoption Center
2601 Jordan Road SW
Fort Payne, AL
Phone: 256-304-0474
Open hours: Monday-Friday 9am-4pm

11/22/2025
11/21/2025

SEMI-FINAL BOUND!!! 💙🏈🐻
Your Plainview Bears are moving on in the AHSAA 4A State Playoffs after a huge win tonight!

Next up: the Bears will host the winner of Anniston vs. Deshler.
Friday, November 28.

This team keeps fighting. This community keeps showing up.
Let’s finish the mission. Go Bears!

11/20/2025
11/20/2025

We successfully placed enough dogs into homes yesterday and are now at 474, which means this will be our second week in a row without needing to create an urgent list. To stay on track, we still need to remain at or below 475 by next Tuesday at 7pm.

Sign ups are still open for Home for the Pawlidays. Learn more at lifelineanimal.org/home-for-the-pawlidays/

Ready to adopt or foster today? Visit us at 3280 Chamblee Dunwoody Road.

11/20/2025

Board of Education Meeting

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Rainsville, AL

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Tuesday 8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 5pm
Thursday 8:30am - 5pm

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The Mountain Valley News (MVN) came into existence when Rainsville natives, Nathaniel and Teresa Ledbetter, bought out the DeKalb Advertiser to bring a newspaper back to the city of Rainsville. An eight-person staff printed the inaugural edition of MVN on November 1, 2011. In May of 2013, we moved to our current location at 450 Main Street West in Rainsville. We now have a six-person staff, have added magazines, television, and radio shows, and most recently a second newspaper called North Jackson Press, and now are under the ownership of Arlan “Monk” and Sherri Blevins.