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The South Marion Citizen is a free weekly community newspaper that publishes on Fridays. It serves the southwest area of Marion County, on the edge of Ocala. The community identifies itself as the State Road 200 Corridor after the major highway that runs through it.
Circulation of the Citizen is more than 14,500 per week. Some are direct mailed into upscale, gated retirement communities in the area, and others are distributed through paper boxes in communities, shopping centers, counter tops in businesses, hospitals and libraries. Carriers deliver copies to neighbors in the smaller retirement communities.
News - Friday, 1 p.m. - the week before publication
Classifieds -Noon, Tuesday before publication
Display Advertising - Monday, 5 p.m. before pulication
The South Marion Citizen is driven by its readers, with more than 90 percent of news written by volunteer columnists and writers within the community covering a diverse range of topics: politics, health, computers, cooking, religion, humor and others. The paper also covers local political issues that directly impact the community.
Tricia Marks is the general manager; Lee Helscel is the editor; Pauline Moore is in charge of classified ads and circulation; Tom Rapplean and Susie Mirabile are the display ad sales staff.
Helscel’s newspaper career started with the St. Petersburg Times in 1968 as a tape monitor for automated line casting machines an entry-level position in the composing room when the industry was still hot type.
Over the years he worked at various composing room positions as the industry changed. He has also written a cooking column for St. Petersburg Evening Independent, worked as a staff writer for the Tampa Times in its Lutz bureau and as editor of the Riverland News in Dunnellon.
After coming to work for the Citrus County Chronicle pagination department in 2001, he became the assistant to then-editor Jim Hunter.

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