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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.
AMESBURY -- Trader Alan’s Truck Stop just off Interstate 495 was always a busy place. Truckers pulled in for gas, service and some of the best hot dogs. They might even join locals at the Fifth Wheel bar to stomp and sing along with a country and western band. If the...
NORTH SHORE – Pam Drolet and Heller Shoop may have played tennis on adjacent courts at the Newburyport Tennis Center. They had mutual friends whose children attended the Page School in West Newbury. Pam lives with her husband in Amesbury. Heller had also lived in...
ATLANTA, GA - Jessica Bermudez of Topsfield earned the distinction of Faculty Honors for Fall 2021 at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This designation is awarded to undergraduate students who have earned a 4.0 academic average for the semester.
REGIONAL – Signs of spring -- much needed after last weekend’s snowstorm – are beginning to appear like crocus in the snow. The Boston Red Sox equipment truck left Monday for Florida, where assuming the owners and players reach a new agreement, the first spring...
SALISBURY – On the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday last week, 32 people from 24 families, including a six-year-old boy, two dogs, a parrot and a ferret, came to the Hilton Senior Center in shock and sleep deprived. They had been roused from their beds after...
GEORGETOWN – When Orlando Pacheco became the Town Administrator this month, one of the thorniest challenges he inherited was the two-plus-year-old fight over the proposal by J. Mello Trash Disposal Corp. to build a 500-ton transfer station on the narrow Carleton Road...
SALISBURY BEACH – On the northern edge of the parking lot of the popular Pavilion events center, Michael’s Oceanfront Motel, an apartment house and three homes, were burned to the ground early Monday morning in a nine-alarm fire that brought firefighters from...
SALISBURY BEACH – Mike Paige was preparing to teach a business law course at Bentley College when he got a text last week from the Marine Mammal Rescue Team at the Seacoast Science Center in Rye, NH, asking him if he could help a stranded mammal on the beach. Paige,...
NEWBURYPORT – It has been two years since the popular Irish band, Dervish, brought its brand of Irish pub music to the Belleville Congregational Church on High Street for local music lovers to clap, stomp and sing along. That Pandemic-created void is about to end...
REGIONAL – If you want to buy a home on the North Shore in 2022, two veteran Realtors have three words of advice: patience, persistence and most of all perseverance. “Everything is cyclical,” said Katheryn O’Brien, who has sold more than 1,400 homes in her 35-year...
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