The 12th annual Summerville Italian Feast raised a record number of funds this year that all go directly back into the classrooms of Dorchester School District Two. The event and executive director for the Summerville Italian Feast, Jay Lombardo, said that the goal has always been to try and increase how much they are able to provide each year to support the school district.

“Our first year we had approximately seven vendors and maybe one thousand people showed up. This year we had 108 vendors and we estimated a crowd of somewhere between 15,000 and 17,000 people in a one-day period,” Lombardo said.