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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 recent months, Solace for Stephanie has helped 10 people who are struggling with cancer and finding it hard to pay their bills. They include a woman, suffering with ovarian cancer since 2022. She had to quit work. Her husband has continued his work, but...
GEORGETOWN – The multi-year fight over a large trash transfer station here may be coming to an end. The Planning Board voted last week five to zero to approve a revised set of conditions for the station that had been negotiated between the board and Mello. The...
ON THE ROAD TO PLUM ISLAND – If you are pink and popular with humans of all ages who love to look at you, paint and photograph you as well as with many types of birds, including Osprey, which enjoy sitting on your chimney and roof, how would you like to celebrate your...
ROWLEY – Michael Kovalchuk remembers that the first time he saw one of the country’s most famous photographs he was dining at the American Barbecue restaurant. In the restroom hung the photo called Lunch at Top of a Skyscraper. Most of us have seen it. Eleven...
MERRIMACK RIVER – If you like to boat, swim or just walk along this river, the $35,000 that the Fluidion sensor pollution testing device costs, plus the $4,000 to $6,000 a year to maintain it, may be the one of the best investments for the river. On July 2, just in...
HAMILTON – Habitat for Humanity won’t solve the housing shortage along the North Shore which is so critical that Gov. Maura Healey persuaded the legislature to pass a $5.16 billion housing bond bill on the last day of the session. But creating 10 new homes here, plus...
AMESBURY – FlingGolf went live Friday on ESPN with an hour show that featured some of the world’s best players demonstrating how to fling a golf ball hundreds of yards down a fairway, flick it a few dozen yards and putt it on the green – all with one stick. The...
NEWBURYPORT – To educate tourists and residents about this city’s largely unknown black history, new plaques have sprung up all over downtown. They tell the stories of an African American neighborhood, about activists who worked against slavery and of ordinary...
NEWBURY – There is a two-story house for sale on the road to Plum Island. Built in 1925, the 1,500-square-foot house has an unfinished basement and walk-up attic. According to the description provided by General Services Administration (GSA), “The structure has been...
REGIONAL – Just back from attending Shark Week in Tampa, FL, Gabe DiSaverio is about to host the third annual New England Hot Sauce Festival from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, July 27 at the scenic outdoor field behind Smuttynose Brewery in Hampton, NH. What do sharks...
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