Articles by Maggie Beamguard

BY MAGGIE BEAMGUARD Insider Editor Dusk settles over Seven Lakes. Headlights send a herd of deer scampering through the yard. A sneaky fox stalks his…

BY MAGGIE BEAMGUARD  Insider Editor Editor’s Note: This is the third and final article in a series introducing our local fire chiefs.  Many children get…

BY MAGGIE BEAMGUARD Insider Editor Stepping into the Sugar and Spice Salon in Seven Lakes will make you feel like a kid again. Bright colors…

BY MAGGIE BEAMGUARD Editor By my estimation, I complete 70-90 interviews each year for the Seven Lakes Insider. The first, and most important, job of…

BY MAGGIE BEAMGUARD Insider Editor Sightings of the famous and infamous were made recently at West End Elementary School. Oprah Winfrey holding a microphone, The…

By Maggie Beamguard Insider Editor Seven Lakes Ace Hardware turns lucky seven this spring. As the store matures, it is undergoing a revamp.  “Every few…

CONTRIBUTED After reading about the annual Blooming Art of the Sandills Exhibition hosted by the Garden Club of the Sandhills, Jo Cermele, a Seven Lakes…

Contributed The Women of Seven Lakes (WoSL) Board members will be busy during the months of June through August preparing for the startup of the…

Contributed Members of the Seven Lakes Garden Club have enjoyed a number of special April events. The club kicked off its April meeting with an…

By MATT LAMB Staff Writer As charter school populations continue to grow in Moore County, students in grades four through nine will have an additional…

By ELENA MARSH Staff Writer On a warm spring day, family and friends gathered at Frye Chapel in Vass for a birthday, a memorial and…

Staff Report Diana Rowland, an educator at Vass-Lakeview Elementary School, and Sandhills Farm Life Elementary Principal Julie MacPherson have been named Moore County Schools Teacher…

Contributed The North Carolina School Superintendents Association and the North Carolina Alliance for School Leadership Development (NCASLD) have announced Jamie Synan a recipient of the…

By ELENA MARSH Staff Writer The Boys & Girls Club of the Sandhills is welcoming local businessman Reggie Smith as the group’s new CEO. An…

BY MAGGIE BEAMGUARD Insider Editor The Seven Lakes Landowners Association (SLLA) held its annual meeting on March 29. New board members and the budget vote…

By MATT LAMB Staff Writer For years, the elephant in the room — in terms of size, scope and cost — has been the idea…

Editor’s Note: Seven Lakes, West End and Eagle Springs fire stations serve the community of southwestern Moore County with both paid and volunteer staff, often…

Contributed Members of the Seven Lakes Garden Club gained insight into the life and habitat of the red-cockaded woodpecker from Gabriela Garrison, Habitat Conservation Coordinator…

By MATT LAMB Staff Writer Moore County Schools will look to further bolster its emergency management system by potentially purchasing and implementing the Centegix Safety…

By Maggie Beamguard Insider Editor In the famous words of American painter Bob Ross, “We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.” It is a…

By Maggie Beamguard Insider Editor Second-hand doesn’t mean second-rate. Ciara Sheerin, a self-described minimalist, has opened 7 Sparrows, a nonprofit boutique in Seven Lakes designed…

BY LAURA DOUGLASS Staff Writer Trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent are the hallmark character traits of a…

By Maggie Beamguard Insider Editor The 2025 recipient of the prestigious Fellingham Award was announced at the annual meeting of Seven Lakes West Landowners Association…

By ANA RISANOStaff Writer A nonprofit that offers shelter for young men and women while they stabilize their lives is looking to expand its operation…

By Maggie Beamguard Insider Editor The Seven Lakes West Landowners’ Association board presided over its annual community meeting on March 18.  The annual meeting, required…

Emilee Phillips Insider Staff Writer Foxfire Village’s first coffee shop, The Foxbrew Coffee House, is now open. Located just around the corner from the Foxfire…

By Maggie Beamguard Insider Editor The verb “aspire” means to have a purpose or goal in mind as well as to move or extend upward….

By Maggie Beamguard Insider Editor Hundreds of orange barrels appeared last month in greater Seven Lakes, lining the N.C. 211 corridor. They herald the commencement…

By Maggie Beamguard Insider Editor In a community as small as Seven Lakes, population around 4,000, it is the small institutions which galvanize residents: churches,…

By Maggie Beamguard Insider Editor March roars in like a lion and gallops out like a lamb. It’s a month of shifting weather patterns, longer…