Linda Petersen, the owner of the eight-year-old West Marin Citizen, signed a contract this week to sell the paper to the Point Reyes Light for $50,000, ending a longstanding competition for advertisers and community support first instigated by uproar over a former Light publisher.
Ms. Petersen, who is moving to Portland to be close to her children and grandchildren, said she will miss West Marin. But she is ready to leave a paper that she…