Changes aim to make South Boston St. Patrick’s Day Parade less rowdy this year

Days away from the St. Patrick’s Day Parade this weekend, organizers plan to implement a few changes to the parade in an effort to keep things safer than last year.

For starters, this year’s parade will begin an hour and a half earlier, at 11:30 a.m. Sunday.

“Last year at the parade, it was an embarrassment, with the level of drinking and violence,” City Councilor Ed Flynn said Monday…

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