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https://static.timesnewsgroup.com.au/prod/uploads/sites/9/2022/08/IMG_7759-scaled.jpg25601707COMMUNITY concerns have been raised regarding the City of Ballarat’s maintenance of Lake Esmond’s surrounds. The steps to the upper park are eroded, picnic tables are damaged and falling apart with metal spikes sticking out of them, wooden edging and retaining walls are disintegrating, and ivy is taking over native trees. A big, uprooted tree [...]Read More...