About the Award – Submissions Due November 1, 2023
The purpose of the Citizen of the Year Award is to honor a Mountain Lakes citizen who, by his or her actions, has shown themselves to be an asset to the Borough of Mountain Lakes. The citizen must be nominated for their volunteer efforts during the 2023 calendar year. The citizen must currently reside in the Borough and must have been a resident of Mountain Lakes during the entire 2023 calendar year. Nominations may be made for an individual or may also include couples or families. Paid employees of the Borough and other civic and community organizations are not eligible for nomination.
2023 nomination forms must be submitted to the Borough Clerk, 400 Boulevard, Mountain Lakes, or via email to clerk@mtnlakes.org. Awards are presented at the December Volunteer Recognition Event.
Mountain Lakes Citizen of the Year application
Past Recipients
2023 | Derek Jackson |
2022 | John Kaplan |
2021 | Steven Hercek |
2020 | Shari Walker |
2019 | Blair Bravo |
2018 | Steve Castellucci |
2017 | Martin Kane |
2016 | Mimi Kaplan |
2015 | Marnie Vyff |
2014 | James P. Bailey |
2013 | John L. Reilly |
2012 | Members of the Centennial Steering Committee |
2011 | Kenneth Stokes |
2010 | Jason H. Eveleth |
2009 | Dede Conlan |
2008 | Thomas & Jean Ryan |
2007 | Andrew Bulfer |
2006 | Joan Nix |
2005 | John Pendleton |
2004 | Jim & Necy Chambers |
2003 | James Moody |
2002 | William & Jacqueline Burkett |
2001 | Adrian ‘Duke’ Smith |
2000 | Herbert Kirby |
1999 | Carol Rufener |
1998 | Glenn Tippy |
1997 | William O’Brien |
1996 | Peggy Bulfer |
1995 | James Stansfield |
1994 | Sally & William Elliott |
1993 | Roland Mueser |
1992 | Joan Belz |
1991 | Chris Sullivan |
1990 | Janice Hunts |
1989 | Linda Stansfield |
1988 | Claude ‘Skip’ Watts |
1987 | Henry Popp |
1986 | Jessie & Charles Hyson |
1985 | George Lilieholm |
1983 | Lyman Wilson |
1982 | James Nelson |
1980 | Robert Wason |
1979 | Ruth & William Harrison |