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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.
GEORGETOWN – After almost a year without a conservation agent on staff, the Conservation Commission (ConComm) voted last week to negotiate a contract with a “highly qualified” candidate. Only commission member Logan Umberger voted against the motion by member Rebecca...
PLUM ISLAND – Plum Island Grille owner Frances Broadberry said farewell to his remaining customers on Oct. 1 with a four-hour party that featured a cash-bar, light food and live music. The next day, Broadberry brought a crew with power tools and ripped out three bars...
TOPSFIELD – The Topsfield Fair finished the 2023 event on a high note, setting a single-day attendance record on its closing day. Overall attendance records was “way down” for the year, said the Fair’s General Manager James O’Brien, but the pent-up demand to see the...
REGIONAL – In mid-September, local food banks, including the First Parish Church Food Pantry in Newbury, Pettengill House and Our Neighbor’s Table, were told by the Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) that due to staff shortages, food supplies to local and regional food...
ROWLEY – For the last few weeks, when you turned off Central Street onto State Highway Rte. 1, your heart was probably not beating as fast as it once did. The reason: MassDOT has installed the long-needed traffic light with turn signals at the dangerous intersection....
NEWBURYPORT – If you like music from drumming by local indigenous musicians to Grammy winning Zydeco from Louisiana, this is the place to be this Saturday. Newburyport’s 3rd Annual Indigenous Peoples Day Event will be held along the downtown waterfront park, starting...
GEORGETOWN – A Newburyport private detective firm demanded Select Board member Rachel Bancroft last week turn over evidence to the state Ethics Commission of her bias in favor of the Conservation Commission if she does not cooperate with its town-funded probe of the...
REGIONAL – The 13th Annual Comedy Night to raise money for cancer victims through the Solace for Stephanie (Jenkins) last month ago raised $24,300, one of the organization’s biggest year. In a wrap-up letter to the hundreds of “angels,” who participated in the Comedy...
TOPSFIELD – Reading has its rewards. The Topsfield Fair, Fiesta Shows and The International Association of Fairs and Expositions this summer promoted a ‘Read and Win’ program with at 32 libraries in Essex, Middlesex counties and southern New Hampshire. For each...
NEWBURYPORT – As you sit waiting your turn to enter the traffic rotary that links downtown and the Gillis Bridge over the Merrimack River in the city’s north end, have you wondered what are those houses and brick buildings off to east? With its unspectacular houses...
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