Auburn Oaks. Toomey’s Square. Now another downtown Auburn institution has hopped aboard the rebranding bandwagon. According to The Auburn Plainsman, J&M Bookstore has begun the process of changing its name to J&M College Store. Blame the e-book. From the Plainsman: While the store has focused on selling textbooks since it’s opening in 1953, the emergence [...]

Come fall, you won’t be able to roll Toomer’s Corner on an around-the-block whim after kissing the bride, or after Bill Clinton is elected, or probably even after your average basketball victory (as monumental as that would be). As TWER first reported in March, the triangle of poles and wires that will serve as the [...]

Less than two weeks after the Toomer’s Oaks were cut down (but not completely removed), and its predecessors either harvested or trampled, there it is: the first rhizomic shoot from the oak closest to College Street, working its way from the tree’s still very much alive roots toward the sun through a crack in the [...]

Ed. note: Beyond “Thanks, Harvey,” Justin Lee didn’t have much time to reflect on it all. He was busy working up the nerve to film folks with his quasi-functional camera for the video that would be his final project for Austin Phillips’ multimedia class. Obviously the only way he could get people to agree to [...]

The Toomer’s Oaks still need protection. Yesterday, Dr. Gary Keever pondered how best to protect the valuable rhizomic shoots that will begin sprouting up through the pine mulch covering the tree beds in the coming months. The solution? Retain the barricades around the beds… and remind would be root looters that they’re still under 24-hour [...]

Brian Brown’s battery didn’t last until the bitter end (it took a bit longer than everyone was expecting). Wish we could play it in reverse. UPDATE: Apparently we can. Related: Incredible video of the final rolling of the Toomer’s Oaks shot from a drone. … More on the the Toomer’s Oaks:  * That tree in [...]

You’re going to be walking by Toomer’s Corner in a few months and you’re going to look down and you’re going to see the Toomer’s Oaks, peeping up through the mulch in the form of possibly hundreds (if Thursday’s harvest is any indication) of rhizomic shoots. The trees are still alive… even now, after being [...]

Photo: Ben Peterman. … More on the the Toomer’s Oaks:  That tree in the old picture of Toomer’s Corner is not one of the Toomer’s Oaks Toomer’s Corner rollings didn’t start with Punt, Bama, Punt, says History Did Auburn students celebrate Bear Bryant’s death by rolling Toomer’s Corner? Auburn unveils new plans for Toomer’s Corner [...]

The reason Tiger Rags’ manager couldn’t get back with me? “We were Iron Bowl busy.” It wasn’t that bad for AuburnArt.com—it was worse, or better, busier than an Iron Bowl, and before A-Day even arrived. But maybe the biggest indicators of the volume of business conducted in downtown Auburn this past weekend are the two crates [...]

It won’t be the last. And it isn’t from the best vantage point (no offense Ware’s Jewelers balcony). And it stops well short of the street sweeper clogging, night blizzard zenith. And it has that dang watermark. But it is the first, at least that we’ve found, and hey, check out that crane that pops [...]