Wyeville, WI News http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/wisconsin/wyeville/ Wyeville, WI News bStory list photos: bTony Shalhoub gets Grammy nomination http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/wisconsin/wyeville/content/1c475cdc35ac73a879d0965792b44a99.html The Emmywinning Green Bay native familiar to a lot of people as TV detective Adrian Monk has a new nomination in his resume Cornell club helping soldiers http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/wisconsin/wyeville/content/a2252eb25f66f059a538663958bb1d2d.html Cornell club helping soldiers Vietnam veterans urged to check coverage status http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/wisconsin/wyeville/content/0aa52c41c4509304aa00720ae64bc046.html MANITOWOC Manitowoc County Veterans Service Officer Jane Babcock reports treatment coverage for Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Orange may be curtailed by the Veterans Administration Yahara House helps connect people with mental illness to jobs and a http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/wisconsin/wyeville/content/ddc96f2ce32f9ec051db6c5a244acbad.html Laurie Trott has been coping with mental illness for some time now but she found herself dealing with a different kind of stress: getting ready to start a demanding new job Trott is a member of the Yahara House a publicly supported clubhouse on East Gorham Street that gives people with mental illness the vocational training and emotional support they need to get their lives back on track Trott 51 hadn39;t worked for decades so Update: Cars slide off slick roads in county http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/wisconsin/wyeville/content/79581c10aae609197cfa046f29de9d1b.html Road conditions appeared to be getting bad in parts of the county according to Dane County Sheriff39;s Office spokeswoman Elise Schaffer The worst seems to be on Scherbel Road in the town of Berry Schaffer said It was real slick on a hill and vehicles were sliding off the road Other slideoffs have been reported in the towns of Vermont and Westport Five school districts were closing early or were already closed MN Smokers Head To WI for Cigarettes http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/wisconsin/wyeville/content/38441fb39c31eea8876b7b26acc8f4da.html While firefighters praise cigarettes that go out on their own smokers in southeast Minnesota are driving to Wisconsin for regular smokes Prep roundup: Greenwood boys basketball nips Assumption http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/wisconsin/wyeville/content/688113a6639c1245270201931be1f291.html GREENWOOD Brandon Nigon put back a missed shot by Jared Yestad with one second left to lift the Greenwood boys basketball team to a 3937 nonconference win over Abbotsford in its season opener Tuesday Obituaries recieved today http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/wisconsin/wyeville/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