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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.
REGIONAL — In the wake of National Grid’s announcement that electricity costs are rising by 64 percent starting Nov. 1, the city of Newburyport expects to offer residents a lower rate through a new electricity aggregation program by January. For National Grid’s 1.3...
REGIONAL — Redistricting every 10 years usually brings change to the political landscape as district lines are moved. This year, the impact of redistricting combined with legislators leaving office for other posts may be a near complete makeover of the North Shore’s...
NEWBURYPORT — A bench on Market Square, which has been there almost a decade, has a plaque that declares it to be “A great place for Peyton and her Nana, Peg Roney.” Another bench, donated in honor of Pat Connelly, has a five-line tribute, “Forever Remembered for her...
NEWBURYPORT — The Parks Commission is launching a citywide search for a place young mountain bikers can ride and jump their bikes without annoying neighbors and those who enjoy hiking and dog walking in March’s Hill. For months, the neighbors and the bikers have been...
NEWBURYPORT — Ann Marie Monzione’s $3,000 donation to purchase a bench or plaque to honor her deceased sister has prompted a city council inquiry into the Parks Conservancy’s finances and operations. A city audit of the Conservancy’s finances was already underway. ...
TRITON REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT — The team from the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) toured the high school and middle school buildings this month to determine if the state agency will accept the school district as a partner. “It was a great visit, and...
NEWBURYPORT — Molly Tuttle had the crowd of about 400 dancing in the aisles at the historic Belleville Congregational Church last week. The Belleville Roots Music Series is now preparing for its second fall concert Saturday, bringing Tony Trischka, whom the New York...
SALISBURY — When former town selectman Charles Geary’s requested last year that the town allow his wife, Barbara, and him to be buried in what appeared to be an empty section of the historic and closed Colonial Cemetery, he unearthed a mystery that may trace its...
IPSWICH — The town Planning Board voted four to one to allow an international optical research company to convert the historic Waldingfield estate into a corporate campus. But don’t expect work crews to descend immediately on the 40-acre estate at 55 Waldingfield...
NEWBURYPORT — Mayor Sean Reardon and two leaders of the Pennacook native American tribe raised the tribe’s flag Sunday at City Hall in advance of the city’s second annual observance of Indigenous Peoples Day on the Merrimack River waterfront. Chief Paul Pouliot and...
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