Lyndsay Jones
ReporterLyndsay Jones is a reporter at WGLT. She joined the station in 2021.
Lyndsay previously worked for The Pantagraph in Bloomington. The Indiana University grad previously worked as a digital data reporter for WCIA and as a reporter at the News-Gazette (both Champaign-Urbana).
You can reach Lyndsay at lljone3@ilstu.edu.
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A core class at Eureka College was upended this semester as students and a professor tried out a new method of handling the course. -
A group with ties to Unit 5 schools is calling for an increased effort to diversify public school curriculums. The Inclusive Education Coalition is raising money for books and materials aimed at broadening what voices are heard — and taught — in local schools.
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The first observation of World AIDS Day happened 33 years ago. A longtime HIV/AIDS activist in Bloomington-Normal says that while some things have changed, vestiges of the country's response to that public health crisis remain.
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A release from the Ecology Action Center says that while recycling rates decreased by 22% from 2019 to 2020, that percentage is "consistent with national and global deviations that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic."
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The 120-member Normal Marching Band received its first-ever invitation to march in the Chicago Thanksgiving Day Parade a few weeks ago.
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Alden Global Capital made an offer to Lee Enterprises on Monday morning to buy out the company at $24 per share. Lee Enterprises is the owner of three newspapers in Central Illinois, including The Pantagraph in Bloomington.
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ISU and Eureka College are among 22 schools piloting diversification effort in teacher prep programsAhead of a statewide mandate for Illinois colleges and universities to make plans to recruit and retain students of color into its teacher education programs, Illinois State University and Eureka College will join 22 other schools in a pilot program aimed at identifying best practices.
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It's typical for nonprofits to see an uptick in donations around the holidays. But what's less known is just how far some nonprofits can stretch a dollar — meaning that, if a donor can give cash, the donation can go further than products like food or other non-perishables.
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Town of Normal officials on Thursday released a request-for-proposals seeking developers interested in one or both of the town's Trail East and Trail West redevelopment projects.
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Substitute teaching, but make it full time. That's the idea that at least two area school districts are testing as a solution to an ongoing shortage of teachers and the substitutes who cover their absences.
