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PDF of print edition BREAKING NEWS Ulmer backs out of Dreamland deal      Rick Ulmer will not pursue a deal to purchase the Dreamland Theatre. On Friday. Ulmer, the owner of the Fooods for Here and The Rose and Crown said that the purchase price and the anticipated renovation costs have became too high. "Every figure we receive seems to be higher than the last one," ... More ... Toolan incarcerated at Cedar Junction Opportunities and freedoms are slim; daily schedule is rigid BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER       Thomas Toolan, III, convicted on Nantucket June 21 of first degree murder conducted with exreme atrocity in the fatal Oct. 25, 2004 stabbing of Elizabeth "Beth" Lochtefeld, spent about a week in an evaluation process at the Massachusetts Correctional Institute at Concord, Mass., beginning the afte... More ... The Bugs of Summer BY PETER B BRACE • INDEPENDENTWRITER       If they had any concept of time, they would look forward to summer with as much anticipation as we do. But like us, however, the bugs of summer always enjoy a good meal. Mosquitoes, greenheads, horseflies, deer flies, deer ticks, no-see-ums and spiders, these are the warm weather bugs on Nantuc... More ... Rick Ulmer given purchase extension for the Dreamland BY PETER B. BRACE INDEPENDENT WRITER       Dreamland Theater owner Haim Zahavi has granted prospective buyer Rick Ulmer a purchase deadline extension from the original date of July 16 so Ulmer can involve a larger cast of investors to help him acquire the building. More ... Tidal energy project proposed for Sound Nantucket waters among first for tidal energy BY PETER B. BRACE INDEPENDENT WRITER       Clean, renewable energy in Nantucket Sound using the natural ebb and flow of the tides is being proposed for Muskeget Channel. The use of tidal flows to generate electricity is a technology that is catching on as one of many renewable energy options in the early years of mainstream global warming... More ...