# The Eastern Melburnian > Your go-to source for local news, events, and community stories across Eastern Melbourne. This file provides information about The Eastern Melburnian to help large language models understand and reference this publication's content. ## Posts - [🟠 Park promises and red bin revolt](https://www.easternmelburnian.com.au/p/park-promises-red-bin-revolt): Also including: The fatal accidents during the construction of Silvan Dam - [Collapsed tunnels, landslides and falling timber: The workers who gave their lives for Silvan Dam](https://www.easternmelburnian.com.au/p/silvan-dam-construction-causalties): The “astonishingly cosmopolitan population” included people from Australia, England, Germany, Italy, Finland and the former Yugoslavia. - [The Victorian Coalition wants to abandon a major electricity transmission line project. But at what cost?](https://www.easternmelburnian.com.au/p/vni-west-project-victorian-coalition-pledge): The alternate policy would rely on making more gas available, but 90 percent of Victoria's commercially-viable gas reserves are gone. - [Promises, promises: Jess Wilson’s $20 million Box Hill Brickworks pledge sounds nice, but does it mean anything?](https://www.easternmelburnian.com.au/p/box-hill-brickworks-coalition-pledge-rally): The site’s owner won’t even take Whitehorse council’s calls, so a sale appears unlikely. - [WATCH: Heart-pounding chilli pork](https://www.easternmelburnian.com.au/p/watch-heart-pounding-chilli-dish): Sri Lankan flavour with a serious kick. - [Jess Wilson wants to force councils to collect red bins weekly, and they’re not happy about it](https://www.easternmelburnian.com.au/p/weekly-red-bin-collection-pledge-reaction): The impost could add millions to annual budgets. Who is going to pay? - [Newsletter: Drain strains and 'dale tales](https://www.easternmelburnian.com.au/p/drain-strains-dale-tales): Also including: Live music and family-friendly events next month - [Every time rain is forecast, this Lilydale cafe owner must decide whether to sandbag his business](https://www.easternmelburnian.com.au/p/drainage-maintenance-flooding-risk): Eastern Melbourne's old drains can't handle torrential downpours. Is there a plan? - [WATCH: Lilydale or Lillydale?](https://www.easternmelburnian.com.au/p/watch-lilydale-name-history): A lake, a town, a woman and a song. - [Newsletter: Emergency care minus the waiting room](https://www.easternmelburnian.com.au/p/emergency-care-without-waiting-room): Also: What's on in September - [“Take the pressure off”: More than 36,000 in Melbourne’s east used a virtual emergency department last year](https://www.easternmelburnian.com.au/p/virtual-emergency-department-melbourne-east): The system delivers care to about 1,000 patients a day across Victoria. - [Newsletter: Cars, trains, buses and parking spots](https://www.easternmelburnian.com.au/p/cars-trains-buses-parking-spots): Also including: The answers to our transport-themed quiz - [Maroondah council considering Ringwood East park sale despite residents’ concerns over lost parkland](https://www.easternmelburnian.com.au/p/maroondah-bronhill-road-reserve-sale-consultation): “It’s our only green space that we can access without getting in a car or trying to cross Maroondah Highway.” - [More than just trees: The “constant fight” over Melbourne’s urban canopy](https://www.easternmelburnian.com.au/p/urban-tree-canopy-plans-boroondara-monash): "We need to think about providing incentives and support for tree retention to try to tip the balance.” - [Billions in rail investment undermined by dependence on car parks, warns urban planning expert](https://www.easternmelburnian.com.au/p/car-park-dependence-urban-planning-expert): “It doesn't make a lot of sense to be building high-quality rail infrastructure ... and then providing car parking around them.” - [Newsletter: The east's hot seats and the railway rookie](https://www.easternmelburnian.com.au/p/hot-seats-railway-rookie): Also: A transport-themed weekly quiz - [Mount Dandenong’s clay sculptures restored after storm damage](https://www.easternmelburnian.com.au/p/william-ricketts-sanctuary-reopens): The garden includes pieces spanning close to 60 years of work. - [WATCH: Mooroolbark's volunteer-run miniature railway](https://www.easternmelburnian.com.au/p/watch-mooroolbark-miniature-railway): The club has been providing rides on scaled-down locomotives for more than 40 years. - [“Very tight challenges”: Crime and housing among the key issues set to determine eastern Melbourne’s key election races](https://www.easternmelburnian.com.au/p/crime-housing-issues-eastern-melbourne-election): The Coalition must capture a number of seats across the east to unseat a Labor government with 12 years under its belt. - [WATCH: The Mount Dandenong house with an underground bomb shelter](https://www.easternmelburnian.com.au/p/mount-dandenong-house-bomb-shelter): The five-bedroom house recently sold for $760,000. - [Newsletter: Learning curves](https://www.easternmelburnian.com.au/p/learning-curves): Also: The answers to the pub-themed quiz - [The man who turned Melbourne’s east into a mudbrick experiment](https://www.easternmelburnian.com.au/p/alistair-knox-mudbrick-builder-designer-warrandyte): “The house is part of the environment and the environment is part of the house.” - [Cold Xpress keeps its warehouses at -25°C around the clock. A new solar rebate means it will cut its bills by more than a third](https://www.easternmelburnian.com.au/p/federal-solar-rebate-business-scheme-expansion): The Rowville company is set to save up to $350,000 per year on power bills across its two sites. - [WATCH: Can I become a disc golf pro?](https://www.easternmelburnian.com.au/p/watch-disc-golf-melbourne-east): The sport is continuing to grow in popularity across Melbourne's east. - [Newsletter: Pipe dreaming](https://www.easternmelburnian.com.au/p/pipe-dreaming): Also: Who are the candidates in your electorate?