[1] In the following years through April 2015, the newspaper engaged in a two-paper competition for limited readership and advertising dollars in a rural area where both were relatively scarce.

Contributors included members of the local Latino Photography Project, whose work ran as an ongoing series called "La Vida".

[5] In August 2008, the Citizen won six awards from the National Newspaper Association based on the paper's first six months of reporting.

The group, reconstituted as the Marin Media Alliance, focused its effort towards community ownership solely on the Citizen.

[11] Under her watch, The Citizen leaned more toward features and reader-contributed pieces, while the Light worked on a more traditional newspaper model of reporters filing news stories.