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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.
AMESBURY — Sparhawk School headmaster Louise Stilphen closed the private school last week for the last time and is attempting to sell its two campuses, while parents and teachers are trying either to buy the school or open a new one. Stilphen, who started Sparhawk and...
GEORGETOWN – The town learned from its lawyer last week that the new town’s bylaw prohibiting a trash transfer station from having the capacity to process more than 50 tons a day may not apply to J. Mello’s Disposal Corp.’ proposed 500-ton/per day trash transfer...
ROWLEY – The Clark School opened its Theater at the Bell last week for a new community theater with plans to become a major player in the North Shore performing arts world. With a cast of 11, the company is staging the Little Shop of Horrors for its inaugural feature...
NEWBURYPORT – The sounds of new homes being built wafted across Auburn Street last week as a group of historians, museum leaders and city employees watched Ed Balsky search for long-dead bodies on a hillside of the 18th Century Oak Hill Cemetery. In an area of the...
GEORGETOWN – G. Mello Disposal Corp. goes again this week before the Planning Board, which has already ruled it does not want the trash processing company to build a 550-ton, per day transfer station on Carleton Road. The board’s decision was reversed on appeal by...
IPSWICH — Unless its neighbors file another lawsuit to stop it, the Waldingfield estate, which traces its history to 1638, may soon be undergoing major renovations to become a corporate campus. The Massachusetts Land Court has turned down an appeal by the Friends of...
REGIONAL – Major Gen. Gordon Granger could hardly have imagined that 156 years after he delivered the news that slaves were free to the people of Texas, the event would be turned into a national holiday called Juneteenth. Nor could the Union general and hero of the...
NEWBURYPORT — The history of African Americans in this city has been what Northeastern University professor Dr. Kabria Baumgartner recently described as stories that “have been erased or misplaced.” Now thanks to the Newburyport Black History Initiative, a dozen...
NEWBURYPORT – Mayor Sean Reardon called the dozen students and adults who won the city’s Human Rights Commission’s Peace prizes this year “good examples for the whole community” for their acts of kindness and inclusiveness. Superintendent Sean Gallagher pronounced...
SALISBURY — The proposed Big Block housing complex on the beach front here is again before the town for approval. The mixed-used project, which could be the long-sought catalyst for the beach front development, would replace an aging group of bars and arcades with 235...
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