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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.
NEWBURYPORT – The Newburyport High School girls’ tennis team won the state championship this spring and may be among the top-ranked teams again next year because several star players, led by Caroline Schulson, are returning. The only problem. Even though Newburyport...
GEORGETOWN – The town’s Board of Selectmen declined last week to reappoint two veteran members of the seven-member Conservation Commission (ConCom), who had voted along with all other commission members not to approve G. Mello Trash Disposal Corp.’s proposed 500-ton...
REGIONAL — Jim Kelcourse resigned last week from what he described as “the best job I’ve ever had” as the state Representative for the northern Essex County communities of Amesbury, Newburyport and Salisbury. But replacing the popular state legislator will not be easy...
NEWBURYPORT – If you think inflation is taking a toll on your family’s budget, put yourself in the shoes of Planning Director Andy Port and members of the City Council, who are watching rising budget estimates on construction of the proposed waterfront park. Price...
ROWLEY – The Covid-19 Pandemic put the brakes on virtually everything, keeping people from congregating and having fun. What it did not stop was people being diagnosed with cancer. That combination tested the mettle of many, particularly the Solace for Stephanie...
NORTH SHORE – Residents of Amesbury, Haverhill, Merrimac and Salisbury may soon have a choice in what company brings cable TV, Internet and phone services into their homes and businesses. Breezeline, formerly Atlantic Broadband, has applied to several North Shore...
ROWLEY — The contentious relationship that developed during the Pandemic between state agencies and the now closed Sea View Retreat long-term care facility has landed in Suffolk Superior Court. The Attorney General’s office last month filed a civil suit against owner...
NEWBURYPORT — The tense war between neighbors of the 17-acre March’s Hill and mountain bikers who have built trails and jumps in a wooded section was fought to a stalemate last week before the city’s Parks Commission. The commission, after listening to more than an...
HAMPTON BEACH — For the third time in four years, Hawaiian sand sculptor Mélineige Beauregard won the top prize and the People Choice Award at the 22nd annual Hampton Beach Master Sand Sculpting Classic. Oh my God this is amazing, Beauregard said.This is an awesome...
IPSWICH – Last week dozens of people, including descendants of Nicholetta Paudelopoulou, gathered at the corner of Main and Saltonstall streets to unveil a new plaque honoring the 27-year-old mill worker and other bystanders whom police shot 109 years ago to break up...
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