Jordan Grantz/Queens University News Service
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Deep water solo climbing is the signature event at this weekend's Tuck Fest at the U.S. National Whitewater Center. Three Charlotte teenagers who have known each other since middle school are competing in the national competition April 29-May 1.
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The Charlotte Chess Center is home to some of the top chess players in the United States and serves a growing population of students in public and private schools, online programs, and sessions in the center’s classroom.
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North Carolina state parks drew 19.8 million visitors in our socially distanced pandemic year of 2020 — about 400,000 more than the previous high in 2017. That created some new issues with maintenance, where park authorities had to monitor "social trails" that people independently created to get more distance from crowds on designated trails.
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Full-time undergraduate enrollment in the University of North Carolina System remained virtually flat from fall 2019 to fall 2020 as COVID-19 changed students’ plans and the universities’ financial situations.