Weaver Welcomes the Privilege to Serve
By Maggie Beamguard Insider Editor When it comes to calling God’s people to serve, the immutable, infinite and eternal One — the Alpha and Omega…
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SLW Photographer Launches Online Gallery
Contributed A new online gallery and store for fine art photography has launched, offering customers a curated selection of stunning images from local photographer Larry…
Meals on Wheels Expands to West End, Seven Lakes
By Maggie Beamguard Insider Editor Meals on Wheels of the Sandhills is celebrating its 50th year serving Moore County under the leadership of its new…
Are You My Mother?
Maggie Beamguard, Insider Editor May brings us Mother’s Day and maybe some mixed feelings. Not every mother is June Cleaver, after all. Some wield their…
Garden Club Exchanges Plants, Talks Beeswax
Contributed Spring is a season for planting and adjusting the garden. The Seven Lakes Garden Club takes advantage of this special season to share plants…
Rocket Man: Local Student Soars into Future
By Maggie Beamguard Insider Editor Andrew McPartland alertly stood on an open field under the clear blue sky of Bragg Farms, located just north of…
Club Ready to Welcome New Pickleball Facility
By Maggie Beamguard Insider Editor Moore County pickleball fanatics are anticipating the May 4 Grand Opening of The Pickle Place in Seven Lakes North, the…
3rd Annual Lake Auman Classic 5K
Folks of all ages hit the ground running at the Lake Auman Classic 5K on April 27. The race’s third year had 117 participants. The…
SLW Mailhouse Project May Lead to Address Change
By John Nagy Insider Writer Seven Lakes West has begun renovation and expansion of its community mailhouse that will add space for new residents and…
North, South Residents to See Higher Fees
By Maggie Beamguard Insider Editor The Seven Lakes Landowners Association, which governs property owners in Seven Lakes North and South, held its annual meeting on…
Cedar of West End Dodges the Times — Again
By Maggie Beamguard Insider Editor It was last spring when work crews popped up along N.C. 211 in West End and Seven Lakes with backhoes…
All Things Together for Good, A Full Life for West End Pastor
Part of a continuing series about women in ministry serving West End. By Maggie Beamguard Insider Editor When it comes to time management, the Rev….
Tapia Named WEE Teacher of the Year
By Maggie Beamguard Insider Editor Take some shaving cream, baking soda, balloons, music, dancing, games, a dash of vinegar and add a couple dozen students…
Fellingham Award Recipient Makson Makes a Mark
By Maggie Beamguard Insider Editor The recipient of the prestigious Fellingham Award was announced at the annual meeting of Seven Lakes West Landowners Association on…
Lake Auman Sports Club Completes Another Fish Habitat Project
Contributed This year marked the 27th year that volunteers, mostly from the Lake Auman Sports Club (LASC), have delivered and placed Christmas trees under lakefront…
‘Redundancy’ Duke Substation Planned for Carthage
By ELENA MARSH Staff Writer Duke Energy Progress’ strategy to ensure its customers are not subjected to prolonged outages due to attacks on its electrical…
Moore County Narrowing Future Water Source
By ELENA MARSH Staff Writer Moore County is beginning to narrow its focus on a future water source that would help meet customer demands over…
Weymouth’s “Welcome Poetry” Celebrates Poets, Poetry
by Lisa CaseSpecial to the SLI “I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.” In the well-loved poem “Trees,” by…
Long Time Coming: Seven Lakes Getting Sewer
By ELENA MARSH Staff Writer The Moore County Board of Commissioners is moving forward with a plan to extend public sewer to Seven Lakes, the…
‘Heavy on My Mind,” Stolen Flashlight Leads to Help, Hope
By Maggie Beamguard Insider Editor Dec. 29 was an ordinary day in the post-holiday retail season for Sam Ransdell at Burney True Value Hardware in…
Leechford’s Work is West End — and the World
First in a series about women in ministry serving West End By Maggie Beamguard Insider Editor West End and Seven Lakes are served by a…
Landowners Consider Dues Increases
By Maggie Beamguard Insider Editor The annual meetings of the Seven Lakes West Landowners and the Seven Lakes Landowners Associations in March will reveal not…
Insomniac Musings in Seven Lakes
By Maggie Beamguard | SLI Editor As a person prone to bouts of insomnia, I’m intimately familiar with the sounds of the night. I may…
Local Churches Relaunch Community Initiative
By ANA RISANO Staff Writer In a new open letter to the community, a collection of Moore County churches have shared their hope of strengthening…
Women of Seven Lakes to Host Spring Events
Contributed The Women of Seven Lakes have an exciting lineup of events for spring. From flexing creative and physical muscle to fashion sense there is…
First Indoor Pickleball Facility to Open in Moore County
By Maggie Beamguard Insider Editor Pickleball is not a fancy, new dish for your church potluck, but the fastest growing sport in America, according to…
Four Seeking Election to SLLA Board
Special to the Insider The election of new board members for the Seven Lakes Landowners Association (SLLA) is underway. Ballots were sent to residents on…
Garden Club Learns About Turf Grass
Contributed February’s Seven Lakes Garden Club meeting featured speaker Grady Miller, a professor and extension turfgrass specialist at North Carolina State University. A green lawn…
Longtime Community Manager Preparing to Retire
By Maggie Beamguard Insider Editor Jennette Mendence will soon be trading her office in Seven Lakes North for a villa in Tuscany. The trip she…
Seeds of Love
As His Bloom Fades, Buddy Spong Is Still Planting Editor’s Note: This story was reported and written in mid January. By Maggie Beamguard Insider Editor…