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Stewart Lytle is the lead reporter for The Town Common newspaper. Before joining The Town Common, he was a national correspondent for Scripps-Howard Newspapers in Washington, D.C., covering the Pentagon and Congress. He has also written for newspapers in Dallas, TX, and Birmingham, AL.
As a national reporter for the Scripps Howard newspaper chain, Stewart wrote the inside story on military life of soldiers and sailors and their families. He landed on aircraft carriers, experienced oxygen deprivation for high-altitude flight training and crawled through the mud with Marine snipers.
One of his proudest achievements outside of journalism was assisting USAA Chairman Robert McDermott in securing federal legislation that mandated air bags in vehicles.
Stewart is also a novelist and has written non-fiction books. He is currently working on a non-fiction book and screenplay about an incident that occurred in Boston.
His first novel, Iron City Conspiracy, explores power in a city. It features a black newspaper editor solving the bombing of a historic black church in a tough Alabama town.
Following in the footsteps of his idol, Ernest Hemingway, Stewart has completed a new novel about a love affair in the midst of the Spanish Civil War. The book, Montserrat, is based on a true story and has been made into a screenplay that will become an international feature film.
A graduate of Phillips Academy and Princeton University, Stewart lives with his wife, Mary, in Newburyport.
ROWLEY – With the appointment of 44-year-old Daniel Veinot as the town’s Fire Chief last week and the appointment in January of 39-year-old Michael Balsley as Police Chief, Rowley has its public safety leadership in place for years to come. “That was one of the...
NEWBURYPORT − The U.S. flag at the Custom House Maritime Museum flew at half-staff last week to honor Thom Gould, a great friend of the museum, a former director and past chair of the board. Born in December 1944, he passed away on Aug. 10. A vice chair of the museum...
GEORGETOWN – Selectman Mike Donahue, who also chairs the Parks and Recreation Commission, is conducting a public survey to gauge residents’ interest in using a $1 million donation from Jim Bussing Sr. to build a four-court, indoor pickleball facility. The proposal is...
Facebook posts and the survey results may differ, but the announcment of a survey by Selectman Mike Donahue, who also chairs the Parks and Recreation Commission brought strong responses, some are included below: Mary-Liz Murray wrote: “Would love to see that donation...
ROWLEY – Chester Bishop was a gunner’s mate on swift boat river patrols in southern Vietnam in December 1968 when he was wounded the first time. The Army, short of soldiers, patched him up and returned him to his boat, where six months later he was injured again by an...
AMESBURY – The pothole you hit that jolts your jaw and bounces your eyes out their sockets has a new enemy. The city of Amesbury has brought in high-tech resources for the first time to map cracks, holes and other decaying spots in the city’s 74 miles of streets. That...
NEWBURYPORT – Malcolm Carnwath was a Realtor and a respected historic preservationist with deep roots in his beloved Newburyport and Portsmouth. But Carnwath probably prefers to be thought of more as a Jazz pianist. As a long-time member of this city’s historical...
GEORGETOWN – Town Administrator Orlando Pacheco has created a blog on the platform SubStack. He used one of his first posts to attack his critics, which includes this newspaper that printed letters from former Conservation Commission staff members. In last week’s...
WEST NEWBURY – Pickleball courts seem to be springing up at any vacant spots as this sport solidifies its popularity with North Shore residents. But none of them have a granite wall reclaimed from the historic Middle Street Bridge, which connected Newburyport and West...
NEWBURYPORT − Dynegy Energy Services is the new supplier of residential electricity for Newburyport. Its Community Choice Power Supply Program is a municipal aggregation which enables local government to combine the purchasing power of its residents and businesses to...
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