We applaud Springfield officials for not giving up on Apremont Triangle. The Republican reports today that the city is still interested in closing the viewing booths at the Amazing.net porn shop there. The booths are associated with health risks, economic blight, harassment of residents, and prostit...

Bad news for Springfield's Apremont Triangle last month. Hampden County Superior Court ruled that Capital Video's Amazing.net porn shop there can reopen its viewing booths. One of Charlie Ryan's last acts as the Mayor of Springfield was to deny Capital Video a 2008 entertainment license for these bo...

Here is the full text of Springfield Mayor Charles Ryan's Findings and Decision as transmitted on January 4 to Thomas Lesser, attorney for Capital Video. Mr. Lesser, based in Northampton, is trying to help Capital Video obtain a 2008 entertainment license for the porn viewing booths in its Spri...

[Updated on 1/5/08] Just hitting the wires now from The Republican: Springfield Mayor Charles Ryan says Amazing.net's viewing booths must stay shut in 2008: Springfield Mayor Charles Ryan has rejected an adult-oriented store's request to reinstate its entertainment license for 2008... Ryan's decisio...

MassLive, the website of The Republican, reports today that viewing booths are still in use at the Amazing.net porn shop in Springfield even though Mayor Charles Ryan ordered them closed in November due to lewd activity and crime: A police sergeant said in a public hearing today ...

WBZ, the CBS affiliate in Boston, reported on December 28: ...Dwan Hammond's arrest stems from a complaint police received from an unidentified person. This tipster told police that "poppers" -- an illegal inhalant -- were being sold at the Amazing.net Adult Video Store on Stuart Street. Police say ...