Lodi former supervisor Eugen Baer won one of two Lodi town council seats in the recent election. Baer is a professor of philosophy, and the author of “Medical Semiotics” (1988) and the chapter “Editing the Text of a Disease: Semiotic and Ethical Aspects of Therapeutic Genetic Engineering” in “Biosemiotics: The Semiotic Web,” edited by Thomas Sebeok and Jean Umiker-Sebeok (1992).