(File Photo of the Beaver County Courthouse)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver, PA) Several topics were discussed at the Beaver County Commissioners’ work session Wednesday at the County Courthouse. The main one was when audience member Peggy Greene spoke to the Commissioners about possibly expanding the number of pickleball courts at the Brady’s Run Ice Arena. Greene spoke about the county’s indoor facility for both pickleball and tennis. She described several issues about the pickleball courts, which included them being two feet too wide for regulation play. Greene also noted that the potential is present for the sport of pickleball, but she wanted to ask the possibility of adding more to accomodate with playing with the tennis players. Beaver County Recreation and Tourism Director Tony Caltury explained that “resurfacing of the entire area” needs to be accomplished before exploring all options to add the other lines with the appropriate regulation court size. Caltury also noted that because of a failure of a cooling tower pump, all ice activities like figure skating, public sessions and birthday parties at the Brady’s Run Ice Arena will be shut down at this time for “at best two weeks.” Beaver County Solicitor Garen Fedeles also mentioned that a report confirms that the county ranks first in the state of Pennsylvania in percentage of ballots returned. Beaver County has had over 60% of its mail-in ballots returned as the 2026 primary election in Pennsylvania will take place on May 19th. Fedeles expressed that “a total of 6,401 have been returned out of 10,332.” The public was also informed by Fedeles that the parking garage at the County Courthouse will be shut down for 4-6 weeks starting on Monday due to finalizing its repairs.