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Contributed The Seven Lakes Garden Club has a knack for finding new places of interest for field trips. On a cool and sunny Thursday morning…

Contributed This year’s annual Lake Auman Sports Club’s Spring Team Bass Tournament took place on Saturday, May 17 on Lake Auman. A record number of…

By Yvonne Merrill  Special to the Insider Every hiking season has its rewards beyond the physical benefits of movement. Winter brings a denuded forest, cooler…

Seven Lakes Kiwanis Club helped the kindergarten students at West End Elementary School build bird houses Tuesday, April 29, continuing the 40+ year tradition. TED…

By MATT LAMB Staff Writer Making personnel decisions at Moore County Schools is a complicated process that involves analyzing personality traits, individual and institutional strengths…

By ANA RISANOStaff Writer Moore County municipalities are keeping on trend with others across the states, seeing population growth with the latest U.S. Census Bureau…

Contributed The Tin Whistles, America’s oldest golfing society, recently announced its 2025 scholarship recipients. This year, the organization selected six students who will be attending…

By ELENA MARSH Staff Writer The Moore County Board of Elections received overall positive responses to a short survey released in mid-April asking voters about…

By MATT LAMB Staff Writer The Moore County Board of Education is looking to reignite the district’s long-standing nonprofit fundraising arm, the Public Education Foundation…

By MATT LAMB Staff Writer The numbers are in, and the results are overwhelming: Moore County would prefer students start school early and finish first-semester…

By ANA RISANOStaff Writer There are only so many ways to ask someone for their kidney. Daniel Kozlovsky III has tried them all. Little did…

By Jonathan Bym Staff Writer The town of Robbins was founded in the late 18th century as a production site for the Kennedy rifle, and…

By Jonathan Bym Staff Writer Nestled alongside the fifth hole of the bustling Pinehurst Course No. 10 is a space dedicated to the scientific arm…

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…