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A night for celebration on Toomer's Corner. Toomer's Corner is named after businessman and former State Senator Sheldon Toomer, a former halfback for the first Auburn squad in 1892. [5] Toomer founded Toomer's Drugs in 1896, which was started with a $500 loan from John Reese, and Toomer later founded the Bank of Auburn on the corner of Magnolia ...
Updyke called into the Paul Finebaum Show in 2011 to confess his crime. He spent time in jail after pleading guilty in 2013.
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The herbicide — Tebuthiuron — was the same one used in 2010 by an angry Alabama football fan to kill the Toomer’s Corner oak trees at Auburn University, following a Crimson Tide loss to their archrival. The incident earned jail time for Harvey Updyke, who acknowledged poisoning the trees.
In November 2014, the university announced it would plant two new full grown oak trees in the spot the original trees stood, and additionally would plant thirty oaks descended from the original trees along a walkway approaching Toomer's Corner. The new trees would be planted in February 2015, and would be given at least one year to acclimate ...
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Toomers' Corner Fans rolling the trees opposite Toomer's Drugs after a home win over Clemson in 2010. The intersection of Magnolia Avenue and College Street [18] in Auburn, which marks the transition from downtown Auburn to the university campus, is known as Toomer's Corner. It is named for businessman and State Senator Sheldon Toomer who ...
In 2021, Arthur and Amelia Bond, wealthy summer residents of Camden, Maine poisoned their neighbor's oak trees with tebuthiuron in order to obtain a better view of Camden Harbor. They paid over $200 thousand in fines to address illegal pesticide use and environmental contamination, and $1.5 million to settle with their neighbor.