(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – The United States Steel logo is pictured outside the headquarters building in downtown Pittsburgh, April 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Mon Valley, PA) The ongoing decision regarding the deal between Nippon Steel of Japan and U.S. Steel is causing the presidential administration and the labor union to disagree about it. According to Senator David McCormick, this deal would create investments in plants like the ones in the Mon Valley, but the United Steelworkers are still looking for details. The labor union is not sure that the “golden share” proposed by President Trump would let non-union plants in the South leave.

(File Photo of the McDonald’s Logo)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Ellwood City, PA) According to a release from Kerry Ford Public Relations, two Beaver County students will receive the 2025 Viccari-McDonald’s of Ellwood City Scholarship today at 4:30 p.m. This will occur at the McDonald’s located in Ellwood City. $1,000 will go to both Tessa Folino from Lincoln High School and Lucas Moody from Riverside High School for both being leaders and participating in community service.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – The water in the Gulf of Mexico appears bluer than usual off of East Beach, Saturday, June 24, 2023, in Galveston, Texas. (Jill Karnicki/Houston Chronicle via AP, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) The beach at Raccoon Creek State Park in Beaver County has been named in a survey taken in June by Frugal Flyer as one of the best “Hidden Gem Beaches” in the United States. According to this survey, the Raccoon Creek State Park beach ranks number forty-one out of the ninety-five beaches ranked on the survey. That beach is also the only one from Pennsylvania to make that survey. The releasing of the survey was from Frugal Flyer, a travel blog from Canada.

Credit for Photo: Screenshot from video originally posted by Rachel Rausch.

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Ellwood City, PA) A police officer from Ellwood City was punished on Monday for a confrontation at a Sheetz on Fifth Street in Ellwood City that was caught in a recent viral video with some profane language. Rob Magnifico pushed twenty-year-old Devin Hartmann on Friday, June 6th. Hartmann wanted his phone back when he got caught recording in the store. Magnifico was demoted to officer, got suspended without pay for ten days and got an order to take anger management classes.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: In this image provided by the Wheeling West Virginia Fire Department, cars sit submerged in floodwaters, Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Wheeling, W.V. (Wheeling West Virginia Fire Department via AP)

WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) — The death toll from weekend flooding in West Virginia rose to six as residents tried to clean up with the threat of more rain on the way.

At least two people remained missing in the state’s northern panhandle after torrential downpours Saturday night, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said Monday. As much as 4 inches (10 centimeters) of rain fell in parts of Wheeling and Ohio County within 40 minutes. The dead included a 3-year-old child.

About an hour to the southeast, heavy rains battered the Marion County community of Fairmont on Sunday, ripping off the outer wall of an apartment building and damaging bridges and roads. No injuries were reported there.

Morrisey declared a state of emergency in both counties. At least 60 homes, 25 businesses and an estimated 30 roads were impacted by flooding, he said.

“It’s just Mother Nature at its worst,” Morrisey said.

In the northern panhandle, vehicles were swept into swollen creeks, some people sought safety in trees and a mobile home caught fire. On Sunday, Morrisey toured the small community of Triadelphia, where five died.

“That was just pure devastation,” he said. “That was brutal.”

Emergency officials in Wheeling sought cleaning supplies, shovels for mud removal and other donations.

Floods hit ‘like a tsunami’

Rich Templin, his wife Michelle and a family friend were cleaning out two storage garages Monday across the street from their Triadelphia home. The garages situated along ground by Little Wheeling Creek were nearly destroyed by floodwaters. Templin’s home on higher ground was untouched.

Templin was at work when his wife trying calling and then texted him to say their street was flooded, a trailer they owned had washed away and “cars were floating by with people in them.”

Templin said he received the text messages within 15 minutes after the rain began.

“I’ve talked to numerous people, they said it was like a tsunami. They saw water coming down the road like two or three feet high,” he said.

Templin used the garages to store tools used in a trucking service company formerly operated by his father.

“We’re trying to see what’s salvageable and what’s not and just start the rebuilding process,” he said.

Grateful in a time of trouble

Teena Libe moved her truck to higher ground during the storm, but couldn’t leave her driveway because a bridge connecting her to the road was severely damaged. Her landlord brought her a generator after she lost electric and water service at her Triadelphia residence.

“The whole entire area within 30 seconds was just underwater,” she said. “It’s just a really surreal feeling and shocking how just within minutes it was just complete disaster.”

Libe said she was grateful that the neighborhood’s homes were still standing.

“It just really solidifies the power of nature and how quick your life can just be turned upside down,” she said.

Rainfall rates are ‘smoking gun’

A stalled weather system that remained over the same location dumped the destructive amount of rainfall.

“It’s unbelievable,” said Marshall Shepherd, director of the atmospheric sciences program at the University of Georgia.

As the atmosphere warms, it is able to hold higher amounts of water vapor that can be unleashed as rain during storms.

“Where the climate change signal is crystal clear to me is the rain rates,” said Shepherd, noting that 2.5 to 4 inches of rainfall fell in about a half hour. “That’s consistent with a smoking gun that we’ve seen with climate change in recent decades, that increase in rain intensity.”

Rainfall hitting impervious surfaces like roads contributed to the flooding and stormwater management systems were engineered to handle rainstorms of the past, not the sudden downpours juiced by climate change that are now occurring, Shepherd said.

“In Fairmont, there is about a 1 in a 100 chance in a given year that 2.5 inches of rain will fall in an hour, so the amount of rainfall that occurred in such a short time is a rare occurrence,” said Brian Tang, an atmospheric science professor at the University at Albany in New York state.

Tang said hilly terrain and soils already saturated from abnormally wet weather contributed to the flash flooding.

“When looking at the statistics of torrential rain events, there is a clear signal that climate change is loading the dice for heavy rainfall,” Tang said.

A region prone to flooding

The region around Wheeling, about an hour’s drive southwest of Pittsburgh, has seen its share of flooding.

Saturday’s flooding came 35 years to the day after more than 5 inches (13 centimeters) of rain in less than three hours and killed 26 people and destroyed 80 homes in nearby Shadyside, Ohio.

Last year, severe storms washed out about 200 tombstones at a Wheeling cemetery. There were deadly floods in the region in 2017 and 2022.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: This photo made available by the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office shows Vance Luther Boelter, the man accused of assassinating the top Democrat in the Minnesota House, as he was arrested late Sunday, June 15, 2025. (Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office via AP)

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The man charged with killing one Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another meticulously planned the shootings and intended to inflict more carnage against those on his hit list, driving to the homes of two other legislators on the night of the attacks, a federal prosecutor said Monday.

But one of those state lawmakers was on vacation and the suspect left the other house after police arrived early Saturday, acting U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson said.

Investigators say Vance Boelter appeared to spend months preparing for the shootings — the latest in a string of political attacks across the U.S. His list of potential targets contained dozens of names, including officials in at least three other states.

In Minnesota, Boelter carried out surveillance missions, took notes on the homes and people he targeted, and disguised himself as a police officer just before the shootings, Thompson said.

“It is no exaggeration to say that his crimes are the stuff of nightmares,” he said.

Boelter surrendered to police Sunday night after they found him in the woods near his home after a massive two-day search. He is accused of fatally shooting former Democratic House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, in their home early Saturday in the northern Minneapolis suburbs.

Authorities say he also shot and wounded Sen. John Hoffman, a Democrat, and his wife, Yvette, who lived a few miles away.

Federal prosecutors charged Boelter, 57, with murder and stalking, which could result in a death sentence if convicted. He already faces state charges, including murder and attempted murder. At a federal court hearing Monday in St. Paul, Boelter said he could not afford an attorney. A federal public defender was appointed to represent him, and he was being held without bail pending a court appearance next week.

Manny Atwal, his lead attorney, declined to comment, saying the office just got the case.

Notebooks show careful planning

Boelter had many notebooks full of plans, Thompson said. Underscoring what law enforcement officials said was the premeditated nature of the attacks, one notebook contained a list of internet-based people search engines, according to court records.

But authorities have not found any writings that would “clearly identify what motivated him,” Thompson said. Though the targets were Democrats and elected officials, Thompson said it was too soon to speculate on any sort of political ideology.

All of the politicians named in his writing were Democrats, including more than 45 state and federal officials in Minnesota, Thompson said. Elected leaders in Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin said they, too, were mentioned in his writings.

Democratic Rep. Esther Agbaje, whose district includes parts of Minneapolis, said she stayed with friends and family over the weekend after learning that her name appeared on the list of targets. She returned home only after learning the suspect had been caught.

“It was only today that you can sort of begin to exhale,” she said.

In texts, the suspect said he ‘went to war’

Authorities declined to reveal the names of the other two lawmakers whose homes were targeted but escaped harm. Democratic Sen. Ann Rest said she was told the suspect parked near her home early Saturday. She said in a statement that the “quick action” of law enforcement officers saved her life.

Boelter sent a text to a family group chat after the shootings that said : “Dad went to war last night… I don’t wanna say more because I don’t wanna implicate anybody,” according to an FBI affidavit.

His wife got another text that said: “Words are not gonna explain how sorry I am for this situation… there’s gonna be some people coming to the house armed and trigger-happy and I don’t want you guys around,” the affidavit said.

Police later found his wife in a car with her children. Officers found two handguns, about $10,000 in cash and passports for the wife and her children, according to the affidavit.

Just hours after the shootings Saturday, Boelter bought an electronic bike and a Buick sedan from someone he met at a bus stop in Minneapolis, the federal affidavit said. Police found the sedan abandoned on a highway Sunday morning.

In the car, officers found a cowboy hat Boelter had been seen wearing in surveillance footage as well as a letter written to the FBI, authorities said. The letter said it was written by “Dr. Vance Luther Boulter” and he was “the shooter at large.”

The car was found in rural Sibley County, where Boelter owned a home. A police officer later saw Boelter running into the woods. He was found within 20 minutes — about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the home — and gave himself up, crawling out before he was handcuffed and taken into custody in a field, authorities said.

Coordinated attacks on legislators

Drew Evans, superintendent of the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, said the rampage likely would’ve continued had Brooklyn Park officers not checked on Hortman’s home, causing Boelter to flee.

The Hoffmans were attacked first at their home in Champlin. Their adult daughter called 911 to say a masked person had come to the door and shot her parents.

Boelter had shown up carrying a flashlight and a 9 mm handgun and wearing a black tactical vest and a “hyper-realistic” silicone mask, Thompson said.

He first knocked and shouted: “This is police.” At one point, the Hoffmans realized he was wearing a mask and Boelter told them “this is a robbery.” After Sen. Hoffman tried to push Boelter out the door, Boelter shot him repeatedly and then shot his wife, the prosecutor said.

A statement released Sunday by Yvette Hoffman said her husband underwent several surgeries. “He took 9 bullet hits. I took 8 and we are both incredibly lucky to be alive,” the statement said.

When police in nearby Brooklyn Park learned that a lawmaker had been shot, they sent patrol officers to check on the Hortmans’ home.

Officers arrived just in time to see Boelter shoot Mark Hortman through the open door of the home and exchanged gunfire with Boelter, who fled into the home before escaping, the complaint said. Melissa Hortman was found dead inside, according to the document. Their dog also was shot and had to be euthanized.

Search for motive continues

Writings recovered from the fake police vehicle included the names of lawmakers and community leaders, along with abortion rights advocates and information about health care facilities, said two law enforcement officials who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss details of the ongoing investigation.

Friends and former colleagues interviewed by the AP describe Boelter as a devout Christian who attended an evangelical church and went to campaign rallies for President Donald Trump.

Boelter also is a former political appointee who served on the same state workforce development board as Hoffman, records show, though it was not clear if they knew each other.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – Governor Josh Shapiro speaks during a news conference regarding the shooting at UPMC Memorial Hospital in York, Pa. on Feb. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and state lawmakers are getting down to crunch time, with big questions still outstanding about how to balance the Democrat’s spending request.

A push is also on to make Pennsylvania the 25th state to legalize marijuana for adult use, raise the minimum wage and slap taxes on slot machine-like “skill” games that are popping up in bars, pizzerias, convenience stores and even standalone parlors.

Pennsylvania’s politically divided government has two weeks left to pass a new spending plan before the state loses some spending authority when the new fiscal year starts July 1.

Lawmakers describe closed-door talks as being at a crawl, and many are watching Congress to see if the federal government will make big cuts in aid.

Here is a look at the major issues:

Top priorities

Top priorities for Shapiro and his fellow Democrats who control the state House of Representatives are boosting funding for public schools and public transit agencies.

Republicans who control the Senate don’t necessarily oppose those aims. But Senate Majority Leader Joe Pittman said threshold issues for his Republican members are finding ways to rein in rising Medicaid costs and proliferating skill games.

Big increase in Medicaid

Shapiro’s $51.5 billion plan for the 2025-2026 fiscal year beginning July 1 would increase total authorized spending by 9% for state operations, or about $3.8 billion, including a $230 million request for the current year’s spending.

Of that, $2.5 billion would go to an increase in Medicaid spending, owing partly to a miscalculation in the cost to care for unexpectedly sick people remaining on the state’s Medicaid rolls after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lawmakers can delay the inevitable increase for a year by, say, low-balling the Medicaid appropriation or postponing a big reimbursement bill to providers, like hospitals or counties.

Pennsylvania’s deficit

Shapiro’s budget proposal holds the line on personal income and sales tax rates, the state’s two largest sources of income. But it requires $4.5 billion in reserve cash to balance.

Tax collections are projected to increase by $2.3 billion to $48.3 billion, or 5% more. But about half of that increase — $1.2 billion — depends on whether lawmakers legalize adult-use marijuana, expand how the corporate net income tax is applied and regulate skill games.

The House last month passed legislation allowing Pennsylvanians 21 or older to legally buy and use marijuana. But it faces opposition from Senate Republican leadership.

Meanwhile, skill games legislation backed by Senate Republican leadership carries a 35% tax rate and limits the number of machines in each establishment. That is sowing opposition from bar owners and could outlaw tens of thousands of machines that are currently operating.

A court order on public schools

An extra $800 million, or 6% more, would go to instruction in K-12 schools and higher education institutions, including Penn State, Temple, Pitt and state-owned universities.

Most of the new education money — $526 million — is viewed as part of a multiyear, multibillion-dollar response to a court decision that found that Pennsylvania’s system of public school funding violates the constitutional rights of students in the poorest districts.

Separate legislation that passed the House is aimed at providing hundreds of millions of dollars in savings to public schools by shaving reimbursements to cyber charter schools. Its fate in the Senate is unclear.

Human services providers

Nursing home operators, home-care providers and counties that run mental health services are hoping for substantial increases in aid that Shapiro didn’t include in his proposal.

The biggest request is from agencies that dispatch home care workers to care for the roughly 150,000 to 200,000 people who qualify for Medicaid-funded home care.

The Pennsylvania Homecare Association is seeking a 10% increase, or $370 million more. Meanwhile, more than 100,000 shifts are going unfilled each month in Pennsylvania because the relatively low wages make it difficult to attract workers, Haney said.

Transit aid

Shapiro is seeking an extra $283 million, or about 20% more, for public transit agencies as he works to stave off cutbacks by transit agencies struggling to regain ridership lost during the pandemic.

Democrats support it. The trade-offs sought by Republicans are adding money for highway projects and funding it with a new source of cash, such as tax revenue from skill games.

Minimum wage

The House last week passed legislation to make Pennsylvania the 31st state to raise its minimum wage above the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour. More heavily populated counties would see bigger increases and sooner. It faces opposition from Senate Republican leadership.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – A sign is seen outside of Seminole Hospital District offering measles testing, Feb. 21, 2025, in Seminole, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

(AP) The U.S. logged fewer than 30 measles cases last week as Ohio health officials confirmed three outbreaks in two counties were over.

There have been 1,197 confirmed measles cases this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. Health officials in Texas, where the nation’s biggest outbreak raged during the late winter and spring, confirmed two cases in the last week.

There are three other major outbreaks in North America. The longest, in Ontario, Canada, has resulted in 2,083 cases from mid-October through June 10. The province logged its first death June 5 in a baby who got congenital measles but also had other preexisting conditions.

Another outbreak in Alberta, Canada, has sickened 868 as of Thursday. And the Mexican state of Chihuahua had 2,179 measles cases and four deaths as of Friday, according to data from the state health ministry.

Other U.S. states with active outbreaks — which the CDC defines as three or more related cases — include Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota and Oklahoma.

In the U.S., two elementary school-aged children in the epicenter in West Texas and an adult in New Mexico have died of measles this year. All were unvaccinated.

Measles is caused by a highly contagious virus that’s airborne and spreads easily when an infected person breathes, sneezes or coughs. It is preventable through vaccines, and has been considered eliminated from the U.S. since 2000.

How many measles cases are there in Texas?

There are a total of 744 cases across 35 counties, most of them in West Texas, state health officials said Tuesday.

Throughout the outbreak, 96 people have been hospitalized.

State health officials estimated less than 1% of cases — fewer than 10 — are actively infectious. Fifty-five percent of Texas’ cases are in Gaines County, where the virus started spreading in a close-knit, undervaccinated Mennonite community. The county has had 411 cases since late January — just under 2% of the county’s residents.

The April 3 death in Texas was an 8-year-old child, according to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Local health officials said the child did not have underlying health conditions and died of “what the child’s doctor described as measles pulmonary failure.” A unvaccinated child with no underlying conditions died of measles in Texas in late February; Kennedy said the child was 6.

How many measles cases are there in New Mexico?

New Mexico held steady Friday with a total of 81 cases.

Seven people have been hospitalized since the outbreak started. Most of the state’s cases are in Lea County. Sandoval County near Albuquerque has six cases, Eddy County has three, Doña Ana County has two. Chaves, Curry and San Juan counties have one each.

An unvaccinated adult died of measles-related illness March 6. The person did not seek medical care.

How many cases are there in Oklahoma?

Oklahoma stayed steady Friday with a total of 16 confirmed and three probable cases.

The state health department is not releasing which counties have cases.

How many cases are there in Arizona?

Arizona has four cases in Navajo County. They are linked to a single source, the county health department said June 9. All four were unvaccinated and had a history of recent international travel.

How many cases are there in Colorado?

Colorado has seen a total of 15 measles cases in 2025, which includes one outbreak of eight related cases.

The outbreak is linked to a Turkish Airlines flight that landed at Denver International Airport in mid-May, and includes four cases in Arapahoe County, three in El Paso County and one in Denver, plus a person who doesn’t live in Colorado.

Health officials confirmed an unrelated case Friday in a Boulder County resident. The person was fully vaccinated but had “recently traveled to Europe, where there are a large number of measles cases,” the state health department said. Officials are monitoring exposures sites in Boulder and Denver.

Other counties that have seen measles this year include Archuleta and Pueblo.

How many cases are there in Illinois?

Illinois health officials confirmed a four-case outbreak on May 5 in the far southern part of the state. It grew to eight cases as of June 6, but no new cases were reported in the following week, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

The state’s other two cases so far this year were in Cook County, and are unrelated to the southern Illinois outbreak.

How many cases are there in Kansas?

Kansas has a total of 76 cases across 11 counties in the southwestern part of the state, with three hospitalizations. All but two of the cases are connected, and most are in Gray County.

How many cases are there in Montana?

Montana had 20 measles cases as of Tuesday. Twelve were in Gallatin County, which is where the first cases showed up — Montana’s first in 35 years.

Flathead and Yellowstone counties had two cases each, and Hill County had four cases.

There are outbreaks in neighboring North Dakota and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan.

How many cases are there in North Dakota?

North Dakota, which hadn’t seen measles since 2011, was up to 34 cases as of June 6, but has held steady since. Two of the people have been hospitalized, and all of the people with confirmed cases were not vaccinated.

There were 16 cases in Williams County in western North Dakota on the Montana border. On the eastern side of the state, there were 10 cases in Grand Forks County and seven cases in Cass County. Burke County, in northwest North Dakota on the border of Saskatchewan, Canada, had one case.

Where else is measles showing up in the U.S.?

Measles cases also have been reported this year in Alaska, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Virginia and Washington.

Earlier outbreaks in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania were declared over by health officials after six weeks of no new cases. Tennessee’s outbreak also appears to be over.

Cases and outbreaks in the U.S. are frequently traced to someone who caught the disease abroad. The CDC said in May that more than twice as many measles have come from outside of the U.S. compared to May of last year, and most of those are in unvaccinated Americans returning home. In 2019, the U.S. saw 1,274 cases and almost lost its status of having eliminated measles.

What do you need to know about the MMR vaccine?

The best way to avoid measles is to get the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. The first shot is recommended for children between 12 and 15 months old and the second between 4 and 6 years old.

Getting another MMR shot as an adult is harmless if there are concerns about waning immunity, the CDC says. People who have documentation of receiving a live measles vaccine in the 1960s don’t need to be revaccinated, but people who were immunized before 1968 with an ineffective vaccine made from “killed” virus should be revaccinated with at least one dose, the agency said.

People who have documentation that they had measles are immune, and those born before 1957 generally don’t need the shots because so many children got measles back then that they have “presumptive immunity.”

Measles has a harder time spreading through communities with high vaccination rates — above 95% — due to “herd immunity.” But childhood vaccination rates have declined nationwide since the pandemic and more parents are claiming religious or personal conscience waivers to exempt their kids from required shots.

What are the symptoms of measles?

Measles first infects the respiratory tract, then spreads throughout the body, causing a high fever, runny nose, cough, red, watery eyes and a rash.

The rash generally appears three to five days after the first symptoms, beginning as flat red spots on the face and then spreading downward to the neck, trunk, arms, legs and feet. When the rash appears, the fever may spike over 104 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the CDC.

Most kids will recover from measles, but infection can lead to dangerous complications such as pneumonia, blindness, brain swelling and death.

How can you treat measles?

There’s no specific treatment for measles, so doctors generally try to alleviate symptoms, prevent complications and keep patients comfortable.

(File Photo of a Picture of a Golf Driver behind a Golf Ball on a Tee with the St. Barnabas Logo Promoting the St. Barnabas Golf Outing)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) Oakmont Country Club just hosted the U.S. Open, but you can still take a swing at several popular golf courses in Beaver County as the season of summer will be starting up soon. the Beaver County Times, here is some information about some Beaver County golf courses that you can try out. 

Beaver Valley Golf Club

Location: Patterson Heights

Rates:

Walking weekday: $17

Walking weekend: $28

Cart weekday 9 holes: $23

Cart weekday 18 holes: $35

Cart 9 holes weekend: $25 before noon, $23 after noon.

Cart 18 holes weekend: $44 before noon, $35 after noon.

About: This 18-hole, semi-private course was built in 1898, making it the fourth-oldest course in the state of Pennsylvania. The course is situated along the Beaver River Valley providing a scenic view and offers a challenge for golfers at any level.

Olde Stonewall Country Club

Location: Ellwood City

Rates:

Preseason and postseason: Opening-April 11, Nov. 11-Dec. 23: $95

Off-Season: April 12-30, Oct. 13-Nov. 10: Weekdays $125, weekday twilight after 2 p.m. $95, Weekend $125, Weekend twilight $95

In season May 1-Oct. 12: Weekdays: $175, $155 from 2 p.m.-3:29 p.m., weekday twilight, after 3:30 p.m. $140, Weekends $175, from 1 p.m.-2:29 p.m. $155, weekend twilight $140, Nine-hole rates are half the price of applicable rates

About: The course was opened in 1999 and designed by course architects Dr. Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry. This course is considered one of the best courses not only in the state, but also in the country. It has been rated by Golf magazine as a top ten new course in 1999, USA Today’s Golfweek in 2015 as America’s Best Courses state-by-state and received Golf Digest ranking as a number one public course in the state. Situated above the banks of the Connoquenessing Creek, Olde Stonewall features a 7,100-yard course with cubes of stone surrounding the course, tee boxes, cart paths and water hazards.

The Club at Shadow Lakes

Location: Aliquippa

Rates:

Weekday: 9 holes: $29, 18 holes: $41

Weekend: 9 holes $35, 18 holes $60

About: While you can sign up to be a member, this course is open to the public to take on the challenging 6,600-yard course and is rated one of the top public courses in Aliquippa.

Fox Run Golf Course

Location: Beaver Falls

Rates: Everyday golf: 9 holes Cart $25, Walking $13, 18 holes Cart $40 Walking $25

About: This Course was founded in 1984 taking over the land of Palisades golf course. Fox Run is a renowned course that has hosted a variety of tournaments, events and outings since it opened.

Rolling Acres Golf Course

Location: Beaver Falls

Rates:

Weekday 9 holes: $15.50, 18 holes $21.50

Weekend 9 holes: $21.50, 18 holes $30, weekday rates apply after 1 p.m.

About: This course opened in 1964 and was designed by James Harrison. The course was built on an old farm estate offering 27 holes spread across 250 acres of land. Both the north and south nine holes combine for 6,576 yards with the west course coming out to 2,864 yards with water on four holes.

Blackhawk Golf Course

Location: Chippewa Township

Rates:

Weekday: 9 holes walking: $16, 18 holes $21

Weekend: 9 holes walking: $17 until noon, $16 after noon. 18 holes $30 until noon $37 after noon

About: Opened in 1929, this 36-hole course is challenging and provides a fair test to golfers at all levels. The course may be shorter than most courses of today, but Black Hawk Golf Course places more focus on placement and accuracy rather than the distance of your drive.