Around the Region: Malden Woman Forcibly Evicted, Email Controversy in Somerville, A Wakefield Ponzi Scheme

Here's a look at some of the top stories from just beyond Medford's city lines:

The principal of the in Somerville apologized to parents, staff and students for sending a controversial email that made national news.when the Boston Herald published a column, titled "Fun takes a holiday in Somerville," in which the columnist quoted from an email written by Kennedy School Principal Anne Foley. The school's head said of Christopher Columbus, "For many of us and our students celebrating this particular person is an insult and a slight to the people he annihilated" and, "On the same lines—we need to be careful around Thanksgiving Day time as well." The incident made national news, and Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone went on MSNBC to respond.

Attempts by housing advocates to block the eviction of a Malden woman failed Monday, though protesters vowed to now take their grievances downtown, straight to the corporate offices of mortgage owner Fannie Mae. Rose Kyeswa bought her home in 2004, and said she made timely payments on the property until she lost a second job in 2008. She was removed from her home on Wyllis Avenue Monday.

Parents of football players are demanding answers and action from school officials, after several players were victims of theft from their lockers while they were at an away game last Friday. According to the report, student athletes returned from a game against Woburn High School about 10 p.m. on Friday to discover iPods, wallets, money and other items had been stolen while they were out. Several lockers were missing locks, except for one that was found half cut, according to the report.

:  Jamon Caswell, 33, of Wakefield is facing up to 20 years in jail after an indictment by the U.S. Department of Justice for allegedly defrauding about 150 people out of more than $350k in a fake fee-collecting scheme. Federal investigators say Caswell, along with Lawrence Amirto, 58, of Boca Raton, Fla., and William Totaro, 60, of Pompano Beach, Fla., were indicted on charges of conspiracy and mail fraud related to an advanced fee scheme for a non-existant credit repair service.

: The Melrose YMCA and Greater Lynn YMCA are merging into a single organization after more than a year of working together under formal management agreement. Bruce Macdonald, CEO of the Greater Lynn Y—which includes the Lynn Y, Saugus Family Y and Torgian Family Y in Peabody—said that each Y's board of directors voted unanimously last week in approving the merger. The next step is filing a petition with the Secretary of the Commonwealth's Office and a pile of paperwork, with the goal of making the merger complete by the first of the year.