Buxton new news editor
Jerry Buxton began work at the Marion County Record Friday as the newspaper's news editor.
Buxton most recently was managing editor of The Arkansas City Traveler, a daily paper, for more than three years, and worked there until April 14.
He also has worked at newspapers in Ponca City, Okla., and in Great Bend, Russell, Jetmore, Osawatomie, Colby, Derby, El Dorado and Ellsworth, mostly as editor or managing editor. He also was the writing coach at many of those newspapers.
He is a native of Ransom, in Ness County, West Central Kansas, the one-time (high-school years) home of "Rollin' Nolan" Cromwell of KU and Los Angeles Rams fame, and also of the late Kansas governor and United States senator, Andrew "Andy" Schoeppel.
He attended the University of Kansas for most of his undergraduate work, but completed a B.A. degree in English at Fort Hays State University in Hays.
Buxton also attended graduate school and law school at KU.
He taught English and writing for a few years at the high school and university (KU freshman-sophomore) levels.
His interests, away from work, include community theater, all things KU, the Kansas City Chiefs, reading, movies, and music.
He was a member of the Cowley County Leadership Class of 2001.
He had roles in the four most recent comedy melodramas presented in Ark City by the Cherokee Strip Players, at the Cherokee Strip Land Rush Museum. The latest one, "How the West Was Dun, or
He has been in about 30 plays, all told, including nine at Ponca Playhouse in Ponca City, including "The Music Man" and "Harvey," and about 11 for Russell Community Theater, including "Bus Stop," "Barefoot in the Park" and "Lie, Cheat and Genuflect."
Buxton had nine half brothers and half sisters, four of whom survive. They live in Lawrence, Kansas City, Mo., Ortonville, Mich., and Kennewick, Wash. He used to be able to say that he was "an only child with nine siblings," since his mother, a widow with three children, married his father, a widower with six grown children, and he "came along" a very proper 18 months later.
He said, "Marion looks like a nice, small but vibrant, 'happening' community with lots going on and lots of community pride and spirit, history and tradition. I'm looking forward to spending time here, working and getting to know folks."
