Mercer News

Catherine Lake area east of Mercer, WI where a wildfire has consumed thousands of acres of forest.

Members of school boards in Region 2 of the Wisconsin Association of School Boards pose during a gathering of new and experienced board members April 16 in Three Lakes, Wis.

FROM LEFT, Mercer School administrator Erik Torkelson, school board president Kelly Kohegyi, foreign exchange student Panupon "Paper" Sunsuwan and board member Ed Alvey Jr.

Mercer Lioness Club members from left, Joyce Brundage and chairman Jeannie Koleno, give diabetes awareness information to Tim Hoch, of Green Lake, Wis., while his daughters Shaely Hoch and Ella Hoch stand by March 26 in Mercer, Wis.

Tribal member Lyle Chapman, 15, spears a walleye April 2011 from the lake of Turtle Flambeau Flowage near Mercer.