The Dorchester Day Parade on Sunday returned to the neighborhood’s main thoroughfare after a two-year hiatus. Aided by sunny skies and cool breezes, the parade drew crowds along the three-mile route on Dorchester Avenue. High school marching bands mixed with candidates for governor, including Maura Healey and Geoff Diehl, as well as Mayor Michelle Wu. Luigi “Lou” Pasquale, a
After a two-year pandemic-prompted hiatus, the Dorchester Day Parade will journey up Dorchester Avenue once again this Sunday, June 5. The march, which starts at 1 p.m. in Lower Mills, follows a three-mile course up the Avenue to Columbia Road. The all-volunteer committee that organizes the day’s events hopes it will regain its foothold as the year’s largest celebration of