ESPN has contacted Auburn University about covering the final Toomer’s Oaks rolling event on April 20th after Auburn’s annual A-Day football game, but Auburn University Communications Director Mike Clardy says he is “not sure yet the extent of their plans.” A committee headed by Teresa Whitman-McCall, AU’s Campus and Community Events Director, met Wednesday to begin […]
Archives for February 2013
Teenage inventor turns bicycle into prosthetic leg, plans to maybe come to Auburn
“Lazy and bored,” Parker Owen found inspiration in old bicycle designs. The Alabama School of Math and Science student turned that into an idea for human prosthetics. That’s some Saturday night. On a quest for mobility, Owen found a way he could help out some of the people he’ll meet on an upcoming mission trip […]
Mississippi band The Weeks titles new album ‘Dear Bo Jackson’
Sam Williams, guitarist for up-and-coming, Mississippi-based southern-fried indie rockers The Weeks, is a “huge Alabama fan.” That didn’t keep him from agreeing to name his band’s new album after an Auburn legend. First off “it just sounded so good,” says Williams, who says the idea for Dear Bo Jackson originally came from wanting actual words […]
Arches still a possibility for Toomer’s Corner
Auburn University’s slice of Toomer’s Corner isn’t the only that will receive a makeover in the near future. The City of Auburn is developing its own master plan for the remainder of the heart of downtown, and while the new look for the corner marking the entrance to Auburn’s campus to be unveiled April 20 […]
Plan for Toomer’s Corner 2.0 narrowed down to two designs
And then there were two. Two new potential designs for the future look of Toomer’s Corner were unveiled at a third round of public workshops held Wednesday afternoon in AU’s Foy Hall auditorium. Not surprisingly, the most well-received designs developed during this past fall’s Toomer’s Corner Landscape Enhancements & Concept Development Workshops–the “Olmstead Arc Path” […]