Source: Josh Moyer, Citizens Voice, July 8, 2012

…About 30 acres here, around Trailwood Lake, are privately owned. Some homes are a decent tee shot and 9-iron swing from the Wilkes-Barre Municipal Golf Course, which sits on about 200 acres. But the real secret, the mystery few people know, concerns all the other land. Wilkes-Barre’s General Municipal Authority, which owns the golf course, owns another 340 acres that surround these houses and include the lake. … Critics of the city government like Frank Sorick, president of the Wilkes-Barre City Taxpayers Association, say enough time and catastrophes have passed; sell it all – everything, the 200-acre golf course and the 340 acres around it. …