KINGFISHER’S HISTORIC First United Methodist Church building, a Main and Broadway landmark since 1917, comes tumbling down Tuesday at the hands of a demolition crew. The church’s congregation, a fixture in Kingfisher since the Landrun of 1889 that first opened this area to settlement, relocated to a new building on South 13th Street. After an unsuccessful search for a buyer who could make use of the historic building, the prime corner lot was sold to a company which plans to build a Casey’s General Store, a convenience store franchise. Stained glass windows and other historic memorabilia that was not incorporated into the new church building was sold at an onsite auction earlier this year that attracted hundreds of current and former church congregants and other collectors who wanted to own a piece of the church’s heritage. SGA Design Group, which is building the convenience store, is still in the permitting process with the City of Kingfisher. A prospective construction timeline was not available at press time Tuesday. (TIMES-FREE PRESS Staff Photos by Jeremy Ingle]

JUST AS THE Methodist Church was coming down on the southwest corner of Main and Broadway, an official groundbreaking was happening on the northeast corner to mark the start of construction of the Kingfisher Visitors Center, the new home of the Chamber of Commerce. At top, participants in the event include, from left: Sandra Kloeppel and Mike Brown, chamber board members; Shauna Rupp, chamber director; John Gooden, Kingfisher Trails Inc. president and driving force behind the project; Jamae Frey and her mother Dorma Hobbs, whose major contribution provided the seed money for an endowed fund to finance the project; Judy Whipple, former chamber manager; Dennis Mueggenborg, downtown retailer and historical preservationist, and Bill Tucker, city commissioner. At bottom, Frey and Hobbs turn the first shovel of earth as Brown, Rupp and Gooden applaud. The prime location at the site of the former service station east of the Main and Broadway corner will allow the chamber to be an initial and obvious point of contact for tourists and visitors to the city as well as new businesses seeking to relocate. (Photos Provided]

Holland Hall was as good as advertised and that proved to be bad news for Kingfisher’s 2020 football season.

Not since Cashion’s fourth contest of the season have the Wildcats had much to worry about in the second half of a football game.

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Former House Majority Leader and State Rep. Mike Sanders (R-Kingfisher) thought he was casually surrendering his District 59 office at the State Capitol to his replacement Tuesday.