Mayor’s Community Update: April 15, 2022
What a great week in the Borough! So many exciting things going on in our community. It feels great to be getting back to normal! Please be sure to support all our wonderful local establishments and SHOP NP for all your everyday and upcoming holiday needs!
Here’s a catch up of what’s going on in New Providence:
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New Providence 4th Annual Race Unity Day Set for June 25
NEW PROVIDENCE, NJ – The members of the Diversity Committee attended the Tuesday, April 12 council meeting to request the use of Centennial Park on June 25 for the 4th Annual Race Unity Day. New Providence High School students are leading the event and it is sponsored by the Diversity Committee.
This is the second year in a row that youth leaders are taking the reigns of organizing the event, Diversity Committee Sunil Abrol said. The goal of the event is to bring various cultures together and promote diversity. The program includes a series of dance and song performances representing different cultures. Discussion series are also offered and attendees can go around to different booths to learn about various groups or attend activities.
The event will run from 1 pm to 4 pm. The council unanimously approved the group’s request to use Centennial Park. “We look forward to attending,” Mayor Al Morgan said.
New Providence Council Celebrates Winning Hockey and Basketball Teams; Recognizes Public Safety Telecommunicators
NEW PROVIDENCE, NJ – It was a proud moment for Mayor Al Morgan and the Borough Council as they recognized the Governor Livingston/New Providence Ice Hockey and New Providence High School Girls Basketball Teams at the Tuesday, April 12 meeting. They also recognized the National Public Safety Telecommunicator’s Week of April 10-16.
The ice hockey team won the Group C State Championship Game vs. Morris Knolls at the Prudential Center on March 7. This year marked the sixth season of New Providence High School ice hockey players participating with their peers from the Governor Livingston High School. The team finished with an impressive 18-6-1 record. Previously, the team earned conference championships in 2017 and 2021.
The mayor and council also honored Head Coach Michael Criscitello for being named the State Ice Hockey Coach of the Year by NJ.com. Criscitello has been with the joint GL/NP hockey team for its entire existence, the first two years as an assistant coach. He was recently appointed Assistant Principal of the New Providence Middle School and will not continue his coaching career next season.
The New Providence Girls Basketball team won the Union County Championship game by topping the defending county champion Westfield High School at Kean University on February 26. This marked the team’s first county championship in 32 years and it is the New Providence High School’s 13th county championship in all sports. The team finished the season ranked 11th in the entire state by NJ.com.
The proclamation honoring the National Public Safety Telecommunicator’s Week noted that emergencies can occur at any time that require police, fire or emergency medical services and when an emergency occurs the prompt response of law enforcement, firefighters and EMS personnel is critical to the protection of life and preservation of property. “The safety of our police officers, firefighters and emergency medical personnel is dependent upon the quality and accuracy of information obtained from citizens who telephone the Mountain Valley Emergency Communications Center,” Morgan read. According to the proclamation “the Public Safety Telecommunicators of the Mountain Valley Emergency Communications Center have contributed substantially to the apprehension of criminals, suppression of fires and treatment of patients,” and that “each dispatcher has exhibited compassion, understanding and professionalism during the performance of their job in the past year.”
The New Providence Republican Committee Proudly Endorses Mayor Al Morgan, Councilwoman Diane Bilicska, and Council-Candidate Alex Kogan for New Providence Borough Council
The New Providence Republican Committee
The New Providence Republican Committee (NPRC) is proud to announce our endorsement and full support for the re-election of our good mayor, Mayor Al Morgan of New Providence, Councilwoman Diane Bilicska, and Council-Candidate Alex Kogan for New Providence Borough Council this November 2022. These three outstanding, diversely experienced, and highly qualified candidates embrace the values and honor our proud New Providence tradition of excellence and have extensive dedicated loyal service to our community.
Mayor Al Morgan is a man of the people with a solid record of Proven Leadership. A lifelong New Providence resident, Mayor Al’s passion and commitment to community, helping people, public safety, prudent financial standards, and strong leadership skills have always guided his every step as Mayor. Through every crisis, through every storm, and all throughout the pandemic, Mayor Al is always right there, sleeves rolled up, always fully engaged, always working to help make things better, always trying to bring people together, always protecting and promoting our community in everything he does, and always putting New Providence first. Ensuring safety, building a welcoming and inclusive community, preserving our small hometown look and feel, our quality of life, broadening our business and economic growth, keeping costs down and promoting growth and innovation is Mayor Al’s top priority. Mayor Al also works closely with our state, county, and local legislators continually advocating for our community. Under Mayor Al’s leadership, implementation and maintenance of our long term financial program has resulted in New Providence’s AAA bond rating and stabilized tax rates while increasing productivity through shared services and lower operating costs. His contributions to New Providence are tremendous. Mayor Al’s strength is not only his natural ability to listen, connect, and work well with people, but his strong leadership ability. Mayor Al’s spirit, consensus building, encouraging neighbors helping neighbors, and always working for the greater good, has become synonymous with all that New Providence stands for: A Nice Place to live with Nice People.
Continue reading‘Chat With Mayor’ Resumes Friday, April 1
Office of the Mayor of New Providence
“Chat with the Mayor” is back in-person starting next Friday, April 1st anytime between 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Borough Hall in the Lincoln Meeting Room (1st floor) 360 Elkwood Ave. in New Providence.
“Chat with the Mayor” is held the 1st Friday of every month and is an opportunity to chat with Mayor Al Morgan in an informal setting about any issues or concerns, learn more about our community, ask questions, share ideas, etc, all off the record, or, just come by to say hi.
As always, you can call Borough Hall at (908) 665-1400 at any time to make a private appointment to meet with Mayor Morgan or you can contact or message Mayor Al directly at anytime: https://www.mayoralmorgan.com/contact/
Spring 2022 Issue of The Collection Magazine
“Re-Opening” of New Providence Celebrated
Mayor Details Borough’s Current Priorities and Pays Tribute to Emergency Responders
January 2022 Mayor’s Annual Address
Better Together
What an incredible year it has been! New Providence’s unrelenting commitment to community, neighbors helping neighbors, businesses and organizations helping each other, and our community pulling together with the most generous outpouring of help, donations, contributions, and displays of human kindness and compassion, has been unlike anything we have ever seen. This has been so evident throughout our Borough during these challenging times and in the face of all our recent adversities. We came together and we worked together, united in our commitment to stay strong, persevere and help make things better. We have proven again and again that together we are at our strongest. Together we are at our best.
Continue readingJanuary 2021 Mayor’s Annual Address – 2020 Year in Review
Pioneer Strong
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this incredible PIONEER STRONG community. 2020 was the beginning of a new decade, our Tricentennial, the 300th Anniversary of the arrival of our first settlers here in New Providence. It was full of hope, excitement, and marked a proud long legacy of excellence and community. With year long celebrations, festivities, and community events planned, it promised to be a pinnacle and historic year for us here in New Providence. Within weeks of 2020’s arrival, the world and life as we knew it changed forever. The Pandemic descended upon us like a plague, bringing fear, heartbreak, isolation, economic hardship, illness, and death. Once filled streets were empty, thriving businesses were closing, momentous occasions went uncelebrated in our usual way, games went unplayed, work went undone, our bustling community was almost at a standstill. The future and life as we knew it, seemed so uncertain. It has been devastating beyond words, physically, mentally, and spiritually. 2020 was not the year we had planned. Like our first settlers in 1720, our limits were pressed, our patience tested, our resolves taxed, but we persevered. We experienced an incredible self awakening, re-shifting our priorities, and reconnecting to people, and the world around us in a way we never knew was possible. It has definitely changed life as we know it, but it has also brought forth such strength and perseverance in each of us that we never knew we had, as a people, and as a community. We came together and we worked together, united in our commitment to survive, doing all we could to help each other and to try to help make things better. Our Pioneer Strength shined like it never did before. Neighbors helping neighbors, businesses and organizations helping and supporting each other, and our community pulling together with the most generous and compassionate outpouring of help, donations, medical supply contributions, device and supplies collections, sewing, mask making and distributing, sandwich and meal preparations and contributions, grocery shopping assistance, buddy check-ins, inspirational calls, messages, pictures, lighting up our windows in support and in remembrance, and such incredible displays of human kindness and compassion unlike anything we have ever seen before.
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