Bill O’Hearn, a seventeen-year resident of Ringwood, has served on the council since 2004. He is currently the Conservation & Advocacy Director of the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference, a non-profit organization that plans, builds, and maintains hiking trails in northern New Jersey and southern New York.

Before joining the Trail Conference, Bill held positions with the N.J. Highlands Coalition and the Passaic River Coalition, and he has eighteen years of marketing and communications experience with Prentice-Hall, Minolta, AlliedSignal, and KPMG. While at AlliedSignal, he worked with the NASA and Boeing Public Affairs teams on the VentureStar space shuttle and the International Space Station. He was Public Relations Chairperson for the Ringwood Educational Foundation, and also volunteered on the Budget Subcommittee of the Lakeland Regional High School Five-Year Strategic Plan.

Bill has helped coach Ringwood Recreation and Cupsaw Lake baseball, soccer, and basketball, and participated in a number of Caring for Ringwood days and playground construction projects. His wife, Robin, is Director of Skylands CLEAN, and his son, Pierce, and daughter, Molly, currently attend Ringwood public schools. Bill is a former Skylands CLEAN board member and Sierra Club volunteer who has worked extensively on Sterling Forest, Saddle Mountain, Newark Watershed, and other important tracts in our area. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia with a BA in English and minor in Philosophy, and has completed the Municipal Elected Officials Certification at Rutgers. His goals as a councilman are to use his planning and land use experience to help the Borough expand its economic base with ecotourism and branding programs, maintain its rural character, enhance local recreation facilities, and explore solar energy as a cost-saving initiative.

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