REGIONAL – Voters were in a spending mood this spring as they approved property tax overrides in several towns at Town Meetings and at the polls. They also approved overrides for the Triton Regional School District’s budget and a debt exclusion to build a proposed...
Stewart Lytle

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.
The Pink House Backers Honored For the Fight
NEWBURYPORT – The Pink House was demolished March 11 by its last owner, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, but the community continues to recognize the efforts of the non-profit group of indefatigable volunteers, the Supporters of the Pink House (STPH), who tried...
IPSWICH, GEORGETOWN, ROWLEY, and BOXFORD Town Meetings Face/Faced Tough Decisions
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AMESBURY: Enjoy the Merrimack
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NEWBURYPORT: Fighting in the Library Stacks
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GEORGETOWN: What Does Town Get from Huge Trash Transfer Station?
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NEWBURYPORT: Celebrate the American Revolution’s 250th
NEWBURYPORT – During the American Revolution, the word freedom had different meanings to the colonists, depending on the color of their skin. When the first shots were fired by the scrappy colonists 250 years ago to begin the American Revolution, Newburyport was...
Georgetown: Choose Between Donahue and Viele
GEORGETOWN – The two candidates to fill the seat of SelectBoard Chair Daryle Lamonica, who is not running again, offer the voters a sharp contrast in town government experience, although their views on the major issues appear to be similar. The election between...
Interim Town Manager Needed
IPSWICH – At a time when it is facing several challenges, including building state-mandated affordable housing, Ipswich needs a new town manager. Stephen Craine, who is finishing his third year of a three-year contract, announced last week that he is leaving at the...
Newburyport: Soothing Immigration Fears
Newburyport: Soothing Immigration Fears Police Officers Will Not Work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement NEWBURYPORT – While undocumented persons are being whisked away to jails in the U.S. and abroad, Marshall Matthew Simons told the city’s Human Rights...
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