Irene Wrenner Email & Phone Number

Essex, VT, US

Montpelier, Vermont, United States

Elected for a two-year term to represent 22,000 residents of a new single-seat Senate District -- for Fairfax, Milton, Westford, and rural Essex -- known as Chittenden North. I serve on the Senate Agriculture and Senate Institutions (Capital Budget) Committees. www.Wrenner4Senate.org.

Essex / Essex Jct. Vermont

As COVID ravaged already-declining local news coverage, I introduced The Essex Retorter into the journalistic void. While our name takes off on the town's former paper of record, we are dead serious about offering timely, accurate news from writers who have the knowledge, experience, perspective and integrity to provide a better read to our residents..

Regularly attend and contribute within local government meetings, workshops, and site visits re policy-making, land use planning, affordable housing, economic development, energy, transportation, and budgeting, mostly within Essex, but also in nearby towns. Study local history to learn from it and encourage others to avoid repeating past.

Thrice re-elected to a non-partisan, five-member town council which served 22,000 residents by making policy that upheld the health, safety and welfare of all. Served as Selectboard Chair from 2009-10. Penned Selectboard Shorts column for the Essex Reporter (local paper) to communicate news from The Inside. Campaigned for Better Communication and conceived.

Create custom crossword puzzles in unique shapes for celebrations and business promotions! Our gifts / favors have added zest to nearly 400 weddings and a funeral -- and many other occasions. I will be taking a hiatus while serving as a Vermont State Senator.

Brought residents together to reflect upon ways we might better relate to one another amidst our different neighborhoods, history and cultures -- including increasing the awareness / importance of using inclusive language and activities to bridge our divided past. Established what we value as a community: Local Economy, Health & Recreation, Community.

Boston office, two years: Microcomputer Support Specialist, helped resolve software and hardware issues on DOS-based PCs.Morristown office, six years, concurrent responsibilities: Office Technology Coordinator (managed hardware and software acquisition and problem-solved issues on DOS and Windows-based PCs, plus a local-area network eventually) and Desktop.

Westboro, MA

Wrote and ran reports for Corporate HR staff to access mainframe-based data ~ for the company heralded in Tracey Kidder's book, The Soul of a New Machine, winner of the 1982 National Book Award for Nonfiction and a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.

B.Sc., Industrial And Labor Relations

Activities and Societies: Sage Chapel Choir, 4 years (elected Secretary, then President); Resident Advisor - Sperry Hall, 1 year; Teaching.

New Jersey Scholars Program, The Enlightenment

Since 1977 the New Jersey Scholars Program has offered an intensive, interdisciplinary five-week residential summer program, tuition-free.