Articles by Maggie Beamguard

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…