T.J. Carson
T.J. Carson is the Galesburg correspondent for Tri States Public Radio. His duties include reporting on current events in the cities of Galesburg and Monmouth, and Knox County. He returns to TSPR after serving as a student reporter and host in 2006. Before Tri States Public Radio, he was a news reporter for WSPL-AM in Streator, IL. At WSPL, T.J. earned two awards from the Illinois Associated Press; Outstanding Single Story Contribution in 2011, and Contributor of the Month for February 2008. T.J. is a native of Lacon, IL. He is a graduate of Midland High School in Varna, IL, where he participated in baseball and football all four years, as well as the Scholastic Bowl team. He received his bachelor's degree from Western Illinois University in the fall of 2006, where he participated in numerous activities for the student-run radio station, as well as public address announcing for the Western Illinois Leatherneck baseball and softball teams. In his spare time, T.J. enjoys baseball, golf, watching animation, and drawing. He has also been a Guest of Honor at fan-created conventions for the television program 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'.
-
Two buildings owned by the Galesburg School District will be torn down over the summer. The Board of Education this month agreed to demolish the Technol...
-
The new head of the Galesburg NAACP chapter intends to emphasize the need to lead young people in the community.
-
The Knoxville School District is studying what it might do if the state comes up short with funding again this fiscal year.
-
Galesburg aldermen voted in favor of a $10 million bond issue so the city can catch up on a backlog of road and bridge projects throughout town.
-
Galesburg residents will soon be able to take cases against them straight to the city. Aldermen this week approved creation of an administrative...
-
Superintendent Ralph Grimm's budget reduction committee spent the past few months working to come up with recommendations for the Board of Education....
-
A Galesburg lawyer hopes he can turn Illinois’ 74th House District from red to blue next year. Bill Butts is the only Democrat to file nominating...
-
Knox County's 911 system has moved into the digital age. Sheriff David Clague called it a "huge step" forward as the emergency dispatch system was...
-
A native of England shared a message of hope and kindness with an audience at Carl Sandburg College in Galesburg. Leon Logothetis is the host of the...
-
An art project by this fall's Artist-in-Residence at Knox College aims to capture the essence and variety of Galesburg. John Bakker, who's from Chicago,...