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BY MAGGIE BEAMGUARD, Insider Editor When 16-year-old Jada Carlyle was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma this spring, her cousins Candace Wright and Kelsey Wright sprang into…

BY MAGGIE BEAMGUARD, Insider Editor Burney Hardware, a Moore County business staple for generations and a relatively recent addition to Seven Lakes, has grown by…

BY MAGGIE BEAMGUARD, Insider Editor It is soon time to don your red, white and blue and join in celebrating the birth of American independence….

BY MAGGIE BEAMGUARD, Insider Editor When the West End Elementary School Parent/Teacher Association decided the PTA should run its own fundraiser this year, there was…

BY MAGGIE BEAMGUARD, Insider Editor Motors were running on Sunday, May 15, toward the Seven Lakes West Community Center for the second-ever Cruise-In. This year’s…

BY MAGGIE BEAMGUARD, Insider Editor Many years ago, in a humble, third-grade classroom not so far away, Diana Rowland used her sharpened No. 2 pencil…

BY MAGGIE BEAMGUARD, Insider Editor Cherri Mercer was recognized this spring as the West End Elementary School Teacher Assistant of the Year. Mercer can be…

BY JOHN A. NAGY, Insider Reporter Seven Lakes West residents unable to get to the community center office to conduct business during the week now…

BY MARY KATE MURPHY, Insider Reporter After interviewing earlier this year as a finalist for the Park Scholarship at N.C. State University, Nathan Auman came…

BY MARY KATE MURPHY, Insider Reporter The seven Moore County middle school students heading to Odyssey of the Mind World Finals next month are a…

BY MAGGIE BEAMGUARD, Insider Editor Memorial Day is coming soon with its cookouts, sales, concerts, parades — and workouts. One workout, known in athletic circles…

BY MAGGIE BEAMGUARD, Insider Editor Seven Lakes Fire and Rescue is inviting the community to experience the big screen in the hornet’s nest. While that…

‘Anything Is Possible’ BY JONATHAN BYM, Insider Reporter All that training Angie Mullennix put in was geared to prepare her body for her eighth Ironman…

(photos by Maggie Beamguard) BY MAGGIE BEAMGUARD, Insider Editor Children in the Wednesday after-school program at West End Presbyterian Church — W.O.W. — participate in…

BY MAGGIE BEAMGUARD, Insider Editor This year’s Fellingham Award recipient, Ron Shepard, was announced at the annual meeting of the Seven Lakes West Landowners Association….

BY MAGGIE BEAMGUARD, Insider Editor The Seven Lakes Landowners Association recently recognized John Svedman with a standing ovation as the Citizen of the Year at…

The seed pearls lost their coating, but remarkably, the peau de soir wedding gown I lifted from the deep cedar chest had not yellowed. My…

Contributed A Union Pines High School student has been named the winner of the sixth annual Seven Lakes Family Dentistry Scholarship. Luke O’Donnell, a senior…

Contributed This year marked the 25th year that volunteers, mostly from the Lake Auman Sports Club (LASC), have delivered and placed Christmas trees under lakefront…

BY MAGGIE BEAMGUARD, Insider Editor The birds of Moore County nearly went homeless for a third year in a row. For over three decades, the…

The Seven Lakes West Landowners Association Board of Directors each month selects residents for the Unsung Hero Award who quietly make Seven Lakes West and…

BY MAGGIE BEAMGUARD, Insider Editor The West End Elementary School gymnasium resembled Charlotte Douglas International Airport this March as students, passports in hand, journeyed to…

BY MAGGIE BEAMGUARD, Insider Editor If you found yourself feeling under the weather and waiting in the drive thru COVID-19 testing center in Pinehurst hosted…

I thought I was seeing things the other day. Dark, little flashes from outside the window caught my eye. I finally decided I needed to…

BY MAGGIE BEAMGUARD, Insider Editor The League of Women Voters of Moore County (LWVMC) rebooted its annual fundraiser “Lunch with Legends” in March for the…

By JAYMIE BAXLEY, Insider Reporter Louis Gregory, who served for six years on the Moore County Board of Commissioners following a long career in law…