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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 – The state Office of the Inspector General (OIG) ordered the town of Georgetown last week to implement better controls on how employees report of their time worked, particularly when an employee is out of town hall. But Inspector General Jeffrey S. Shapiro...
HAVERHILL – Whittier Vocational Tech Regional High School and the Northern Essex Community College (NECC) have moved a step closer to developing a shared campus that might be funded in part by the state. Ten of the 11 communities that make up the Whittier Tech...
NEWBURY – Settlers from Ipswich rowed up the Parker River in May of 1635 to establish this farming and trading community. They built a meeting house surrounded by one and two-room houses that were close together just north of the river to protect themselves from...
AMESBURY – The city hall building, built in 1890, is in need of renovation and upgrades to make it more accessible, including rebuilding hallways, steep stairways and even adding an elevator, probably on the exterior. It needs a new fire suppression system, secure...
NEWBURYPORT – For decades, residents here shopped at Kmart in Port Plaza for everything from furniture to toys. In coming years, they may live in new apartments that could be built where the vacant store now stands. Closed for seven years, the site of the almost...
REGIONAL – Gov. Maura Healey has come up with a new plan to build a modern Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School (WT) on the Northeastern Community College campus (NECC) in Haverhill. In what was described as “early stages” of consideration by state...
REGIONAL – The annual Comedy Night fundraiser to help the cancer victim beneficiaries of Solace for Stephanie could use a few more gift cards for the raffle baskets. “While ticket sales are happening, we would like to give people the opportunity to sponsor some...
REGIONAL – MEVA, the fare-free bus line that serves northeast Massachusetts, turned 50 last week with a celebration at the new McGovern Transportation Center. In 1974, the Massachusetts legislature created 10 regional transit authorities to take over for failing...
NEWBURY – If the old adage that ‘money talks’ is still true, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FW&S) may have a reason to reconsider its plans to demolish the Pink House. An anonymous local Pink House supporter has pledged in what is called a “game changer,”...
GEORGETOWN – A new era in trash management for North Shore communities is beginning with pre-construction of a new circular path through the land at the end of Carlton Drive, once owned by the Mirra Corp. Construction of the 500-ton transfer station near Interstate 95...
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