http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/wisconsin/strongs-prairie/ Strongs Prairie, WI News http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/wisconsin/strongs-prairie/content/a02809e90b152858d872e50fe490dfc8.html It was shortly after bar time on Oct 14 and dispatchers sent Madison Police Officer Amelia Soto to track down a white van that had plowed into parked cars and was heading south on Dempsey Road Soto caught up with the van and began to chase it through a residential neighborhood just south of Cottage Grove Road on Madison39;s east side The driver Donald Wiessinger 50 continued using his vehicle as a sort of pingpong http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/wisconsin/strongs-prairie/content/b3349f0be52012c40e28e61b212c894b.html MOUNT PLEASANT The economic recession has struck another local company in the form of job reductions http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/wisconsin/strongs-prairie/content/38344820c00180eb9cdf7126d5594ace.html A statewide public records audit found that one in 10 requests for basic documents were denied or ignored by local governments http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/wisconsin/strongs-prairie/content/a8da107005948a1d9cc400a3eb020da9.html Lee R Baxandall died in Oshkosh on November 28th Like his uncle Clyde Lee an aviator who attempted one of the earliest nonstop transatlantic flights Lee Baxandall pushed the boundaries and tackled the impossible Lees uncle found his nemesis in the Irish Sea Lee Baxandall found his alas in Parkinsons diseaseBorn January 26 1935 in Oshkosh Lee was the first child of Raymond W Baxandall a prominent local businessman and his wife Neita Evelyn nee Lee Baxandall Lees adventurous spirit first manifested itself in an interest in scouting Having achieved the rank of Eagle Scout a highlight of his young life was his selection in 1951 to join a 12member delegation of scouts from across the United States invited to the White House to meet President Harry S Truman This formative experience piqued a lifelong interest in travel which took Lee and family to almost every corner of the globe over the next five decades After graduating from Oshkosh High School Lee matriculated at the University of WisconsinMadison in 1953 earning his baccalaureate in 1957 and a masters degree just one year later Further graduate study followed Lees interests in literature and political activism were kindled during these years in Madison where he began contributing articles reviews and social commentary to academic periodicals and local publications After moving to New York City where he lived throughout the 1960s he soon established himself within the progressive community as a playwright essayist reviewer and frequent contributor to periodicals such as The Drama Review Partisan Review The Village Voice Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and Science and Society Upon the death of his father in 1970 Lee returned to Oshkosh to take over The Baxandall Company an educational publishing business and also pursue his burgeoning interest in Naturism In the early 1970s Lee founded the Naturist Society in downtown Oshkosh and there began publishing the seminal periodical of the growing Naturist movement Clothed with the Sun later Nude and Natural and N Magazine and the World Guide to Nude BeachesLee was also an ardent and knowledgeable collector of art Perhaps his most important contribution in this realm was his recovery and promotion of the longignored works of Robert Koehler a 19th Century GermanAmerican artist whos most significant painting The Strike depicts a unique moment in the history of the labor movement in Wisconsin This masterpiece now hangs in the Zeughaus Museum in Berlin GermanyIn addition to his prolific writings on naturism and his plays essays poems commentaries and works of aesthetic criticism Lee was a noted translator of the German playwright Bertolt Brecht Lees many books include Radical Perspectives in the Arts Marxism and Aesthetics and with Stefan Morawski Marx Engels on Literature and ArtA memorial service will be held on Saturday December 6 2008 at 2 pm at the Seefeld Funeral and Cremation Services 1025 Oregon Street Oshkosh WI 54902 Visitation will be held from 1 pm until the time of the service and a reception will follow In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to the Parkinsons Disease Foundation Please visit wwwseefeldfuneralcom to send online condolences to the familySeefeld Funeral andCremation Services920 2367750 http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/wisconsin/strongs-prairie/content/39d33688f810d7a25081ca9fe9e246db.html Lambeau Field was named among the five most vegetarianfriendly stadiums in the NFL in an inaugural ranking by a national animal rights group http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/wisconsin/strongs-prairie/content/0179bb33432cadce21e6c9c8d40cb1f9.html RACINE No signs of forced entry in burglary An estimated 1650 worth of valuables was reported missing after an apparent burglary Monday at a residence in the 1600 block of Flett Avenue http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/wisconsin/strongs-prairie/content/5b2fc082e9786cb559a72030d7742aec.html An Omro man accused of a slew of Fond du Lac County thefts has been charged http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/wisconsin/strongs-prairie/content/181668accf280dca72f2e6727a0d7733.html It39;s news Sauk County Coroner Betty Hinze hates to give a family Someone39;s father daughter wife or brother has just died because someone decided to drive drunk Wisconsin has the highest drunkdriving rate in the nation a recent federal study found And local statistics don39;t paint a brighter picture We sure would like to see it cut down as much as possible Hinze said Still Sauk County39;s tavern league