Brewing New Business: Coffee Shop Opens in Foxfire
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…
Articles by Maggie Beamguard
Great Aspirations: One Year On, Seven Lakes Studio Crushes Goals
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….
Project Barrels Ahead, Long Road to Construction
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…
Chief Keeps Station Flowing Like Water
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,…
Continuing the March Through Time
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…
Women of Seven Lakes Springs up with Celebrations, Fashion and Flowers
Contributed The Women of Seven Lakes (WoSL) will celebrate female business owners and seven businesses in the Seven Lakes area at 2 p.m. Thursday, March…
New Tractor Supply Feeds Development
By Maggie Beamguard Insider Editor In a bygone era, the small business area at the busy corner of N.C. 73 and N.C. 211 in West…
Earthbound Business Launches
By Maggie Beamguard Earthbound Therapeutics, a small business offering a variety of holistic and alternative therapies, was brought to Seven Lakes in January of 2024…
Kiwanis Club to Host 42nd Pancake Breakfast
By Maggie Beamguard Insider Editor The Kiwanis Club of Seven Lakes will be flipping flapjacks for the 42nd year this spring. Everyone in the community…
Land Plan Group Hands Up Recommendations
By ELENA MARSH Insider Staff Writer With only one more major meeting to go, the Moore County Land Use Plan Steering Committee is finishing up…
Garden Club Gets an Ecosystem Lesson
Contributed Jesse Wimberly began the February program for the Garden Club of Seven Lakes by holding up a thorny stem of Similax (Greenbrier), a native…
Ripple Fiber Gets Flowing in Seven Lakes
By Maggie Beamguard Insider Editor Ripple Fiber, a high speed internet company headquartered in Charlotte, has been laying the groundwork to bring a second high…
McNeill Oil Sells Mac’s Foods Locations
By Frank Daniels IV Staff Writer Four Mac’s Food Stores are under new ownership after McNeill Oil & Propane sold the businesses to Majors Management…
If the (red) shoe fits . . . Community Mourns Unexpected Friend
By Deborah Salomon Staff Writer No, the jolly gent sporting red shoes isn’t an elf who missed the last sleigh back to North Pole. Neither…
Vision 4 Moore Announces 2025 Concert Series to Benefit Local Charities
Contributed For a decade, Vision 4 Moore has been a driving force in supporting Moore County’s vitalnonprofit organizations, raising significant funds and awareness through its…
Lost ‘Momentum:’ Sandhills Local Food Co-op Disbands
By Frank Daniels IV Staff Writer Local food cooperative Sandhills Farm to Table will not continue into its 16th season. Managing director Mandy Davis announced…
It’s a Swan’s World… Seven Lakes Feathers Its Nest for King Pearl
Pearl Shines for Seven Lakes BY MAGGIE BEAMGUARD Insider Editor No one knows exactly from whence she arrived. But one morning in 2016, when Rodney…
The Poet’s Spirit Deepens Understanding
Every so often, a synapse in my brain will unexpectedly free a line or two from a poem from the place where Mrs. Owen-Early embedded…
Group to Celebrate Women Business Owners
Contributed Women of 7 Lakes (WoSL) is a non-profit organization dedicated to raising funds for local charities and providing outreach within the Seven Lakes/Moore County…
Two Seeking Election to SLWLA Board
Staff Report The election of new board members for the Seven Lakes West Landowners Association (SLWLA) is underway. SLWLA landowners will be electing candidates for…
Six Seeking Election to SLLA Board
By Maggie Beamguard Insider Editor Landowners in Seven Lakes North and South have a pool of six candidates to elect to four open seats on…
Garden Club Bubbles with Interest in Water Features
Contributed The weather outside for the January meeting of the Seven Lakes Garden Club was not conducive to gardening, but the potential opportunities of spring…
‘24 Open Surpasses Impact from Back-to-Backs
By Jonathan Bym Insider Staff Writer As the crowds drained away that dramatic Sunday evening concluding the U.S. Open this past June, many left with…
New Principals Appointed for Vacancies
Contributed As the Moore County Board of Education moves forward on its planning for a new “innovative high school” at Sandhills Community College, it filled…
Controlled Burns Important for Land of the Pines
By ANA RISANOInsider Staff Writer It’s that time of year again, when smoke clouds the air and Facebook fills with questions about who’s burning and…
Program Helps Seniors Back on Their Feet
A Matter of Balance cetified master trainer Marisa Ramos with photos of her previous class graduatesBy ELENA MARSH Insider Staff Writer After a traumatic fall,…
Digital Courts Access Going Smoothly
By MATT LAMB Insider Staff Writer Cumbersome systems are often slow to change, but when it became apparent that North Carolina’s counties would be transitioning…
Local Couples ‘Dill’ New Card Game
By Frank Daniels IV Insider Staff Writer Within earshot of most parks these days, you can hear the thwack-crack of pickleball volleys echoing from its…
Southern Pines Balancing Growth, Preservation
By ANA RISANOInsider Staff Writer Southern Pines hasn’t been paved over to put up a parking lot, but it does have a yellow hotel, several…
Longtime Leader Tees It Up for a Familiar Successor
By Jonathan Bym Insider Staff Writer Having someone with a wealth of institutional knowledge like Jack Nance has been a blessing for the Carolinas Golf…