Medford carolers jingle their way to world record

Last year's massive Christmas caroling session in Medford is now officially a world record.

Officials of the Guinness Book of World Records informed Mayor Michael McGlynn last Thursday that Medford now holds the record for the largest continuous Christmas caroling done in a group.

On Nov. 30, 3,837 people gathered at 5 High St. and sang carols continuously for 32 minutes. It broke the record of 1,175 people singing for 28 minutes in Cambridge, Ontario, in December 2003.

McGlynn said Medford's Jingle Bell Committee will decide this spring if the city will make an attempt to break its own world record. ''We may do it again," he said, ''because we know someone out there is going to try and break it."

MAUREEN COSTELLO