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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 – The Rte. 1 Rotary, probably the hottest area in the region for new multi-family housing, is about to get rebuilt, thanks to the state Department of Transportation. Designated by the city of Newburyport as a “Smart Growth District, the rotary, the Clipper...
GEORGETOWN – The Board of Selectmen voted four to zero Wednesday night to make a conditional offer to Orlando Pacheco, the town administrator in Lancaster, who would replace Mike Farrell, this town’s administrator since 2010. Pacheco wowed the selectmen, who...
GEORGETOWN — On one of her frequent visits to the Georgetown Peabody Library, Jane Fields overheard a student asking for a copy of the Iliad, only to be told that the library had none. She returned to her home on North Street and found in her attic a copy of Homer’s...
NEWBURYPORT – Will bicycle riders use the 12-foot shared path across the proposed Market Landing Waterfront Park as a superhighway to get a workout, as one city councilor described it? Or will they go slow or even walk their bikes across the park? That is the question...
IPSWICH – On June 10, 1913, Nicholetta Paudelopoulou was walking home from her shift, working at a hosiery mill in downtown Ipswich. At Estes Street, the 27-year-old encountered a large crowd of mostly Greek and Polish workers, protesting for a 20 percent wage hike. ...
SALISBURY – When you drive north on Rte. 1, you may have chuckled at the sign in front of the Kittens Club, advertising upcoming performances by strippers with colorful names. The 14-year-old club with its green façade and pink sign says it provides “non-stop...
AMESBURY — It would seem that Kacey Bellamy has lived a charmed life. From the time she strapped on skates and picked up a stick, she has excelled at playing hockey. Bellamy, 34, won three Olympic medals – a gold and two silvers – between 2010 and 2018 with the USA...
GEORGETOWN – The Planning Board has officially notified Town Clerk Kerri McManus of its unanimous decision to deny the proposal by the G. Mello Disposal Corp. to build a 500-ton transfer station near Interstate 95 on Carleton Drive. Mello has 20 days to appeal the...
ROWLEY – Between the two world wars of the last century, Maria Montessori, the first woman Italian doctor and innovative educator, had a message for world leaders: Children are the Peacemakers of the Future. The students at the North Shore Montessori School here,...
ROWLEY – Sea View Retreat, which has been caring for elderly clients for 67 years, is likely to close within two weeks, owner and operator Steven Comley II said Monday. “We’ve been hanging on with one finger,” Comley said. Blaming the lack of support and constantly...
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