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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.
THE MERRIMACK RIVER – As a boy in Merrimacport, Dan Healey fished and played with his friends in what he described last week as “a very smelly” Merrimack River. The water smelled; the fish he and his friends caught smelled, he said. “When my mother would throw me out...
SALISBURY – The chair of the Historical Commission is asking residents to sign a petition online to preserve two buildings on Ring’s Island, built in the 1800s. The commission voted last month to ask the town’s Board of Selectmen to nominate the Community Meeting...
NEWBURYPORT – Jarred and Nadiia Sadowski are hosting a fundraising dinner Sunday afternoon at the historic Custom House Maritime Museum. The dinner of authentic Ukrainian dishes is raising funds the Sadowskis send to buy food in Nadiia’s hometown that is under Russian...
IPSWICH — The Waldingfield estate has undergone major changes since it was first built along the Ipswich River in 1638. Historic Ipswich notes that every hundred years the property has been transformed with relocation, expansion and a devasting fire in the 1920s. In...
NEWBURYPORT – Pickleball is back at the Newburyport Tennis Club this weekend. The NTC, which has housed indoor tennis for more than 40 years, has repaved and painted an underutilized parking lot, large enough for three pickleball courts. Play is expected to begin...
REGIONAL – Sarah Abramson became an environmental activist at age eight when she learned that there was a hole in the Earth’s ozone layer. Fast forward more than two decades, and Sarah, now the mother of a two-year-old son, has a new worry about the planet – keeping...
SALISBURY – The town’s Historical Commission would like to preserve two buildings on Ring’s Island, built in the 19th century. It voted to nominate the Community Meeting House and one of the state’s few remaining one-room schoolhouses on Fourth Street as Endangered...
GEORGETOWN – The town’s three-member Board of Health voted unanimously last week to approve the site on Carleton Drive for a proposed 550-ton trash transfer station, but under conditions that limit the size of the station for the first four years and would make...
NEWBURYPORT – More than 40 people attended Jarred and Nadiia Sadowski’s first Ukrainian Tasting Event on April 30, raising at least $4,000 to buy food for residents of her hometown, the Russian-occupied city of Nova Kahovka in southern Ukraine. “This is truly...
ROWLEY – To celebrate its second anniversary, Cape Ann Botanicals & Cannabis has become a corporate partner of the Ipswich River Watershed Assn. with the goal of educating employees and customers to become river stewards. American Rivers ranks the Ipswich as the...
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