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Fifth Alarm, Worthington Street, Springfield

(File photos / The Republican)

SPRINGFIELD - The city has postponed hearings with four of 11 bars and clubs that are seeking to expand their entertainment past a 1 a.m. curfew.

Lawyer Daniel Kelly, representing the businesses, asked for the postponement due to a scheduling conflict, said Alesia Days, the city's hearing officer. The hearings were planned on Thursday afternoon.

A new hearing date will be scheduled for the following businesses: 305 Grill, 350 Worthington St.; Fifth Alarm, 775 Worthington St.; Show Bar, 240 Chestnut St., and Oz, 397-399 Dwight St., represented by Kelly. All four are downtown businesses.

Those bars and seven others are seeking late-night entertainment licenses that would allow them to continue entertainment until their 2 a.m. closing.

Days will report her findings to Mayor Domenic J. Sarno, who will grant or deny the later entertainment hour. The 1 a.m. entertainment curfew was first established by Sarno in 2012, aimed at reducing late-night violence and trouble.

Twenty-six businesses have licenses to keep the entertainment going past the curfew.