Reprinted from The Edgewater Residential, March 2004

Nancy Merse, Edgewater's first female Mayor has long history of service.

Twenty years ago Nancy Merse was the first woman elected to the Edgewater Municipal Council.  In November, 2003 she was the first woman elected Mayor.

She has come a long way, without leaving home. Along that way, Mayor Merse was instrumental in developing the borough from a factory town on the verge of bankruptcy to one of Bergen County’s most desirable communities.

Recently inducted into the New Jersey Municipal Hall of Fame, Mayor Merse is a retired Assistant Vice President of United Jersey Bank – now Fleet Bank. She was raised here, went to school here, sent her children to school here – and they sent their children to school here. This is her town and nobody knows it better.

“Edgewater is a dynamic community where residents and businesses work together,” she said. “The spirit of the old coast energizes our new Gold Coast and the future has never looked better.”