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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 – If you are looking for a last-minute present that will wow residents or non-residents of this destination for history tourists, you need look no further than Ghlee Woodward’s insightful book, Newburyport Clipper Heritage Trail, Volume 1. The book that...
NEWBURY — When the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) bought the iconic Pink House on Plum Island in 2011, it thought the single-family house, which is the subject of countless paintings and photographs, might serve the federal government as a guest house for...
AMESBURY – In what could be a boost to the long-awaited re-development of the Lower Millyard district, CIWorks has been asked to manage and recruit businesses and manufacturing firms for space in a building that overlooks the scenic Powwow River and Rail Trail. If...
REGIONAL – The food pantry at Newbury’s First Parish Church held a groundbreaking last week to build a 2,400-square-foot building that allows the pantry that serves more than 300 people a week to return to its roots at this historic church. “It couldn’t come soon...
ROWLEY – Last year, when Tammy and Ron Garron attended the Wreaths Across America ceremony in Topsfield, they were so touched by the ceremony they decided this year to bring the initiative that honors veterans to the Rowley Burial Ground. The Garrons joined Rowley’s...
REGIONAL – Veterans can celebrate Christmas together for the first time this year from noon to 2 p.m. at the AMVets Post 147 and VFW Lorraine Post 29 in Haverhill on Dec. 23. “With much excitement, a group of volunteers is happy to announce that there will be a...
GEORGETOWN – The Board of Selectmen welcomed Orlando Pacheco as its new town administrator Monday. Pacheco was unanimously approved last month to succeed retiring Mike Farrell, who has been this town’s administrator since 2010. Pacheco, 43, who is transitioning from...
SALISBURY – Gingerbread cookies, produced by first-grade students at Salisbury Elementary School, were a treat awaiting those who toured the Pike School Sunday during the town’s tree lighting ceremony. The students in Cara O’Connor’s class accepted the invitation...
REGIONAL — Food and football are a Thanksgiving tradition, and nowhere more so than at the Port City Sandwich Co. on the Wednesday morning when the Newburyport High School football team gathers for breakfast before the final game of the season. This year, host...
SALISBURY – Former town selectman Charles Geary’s 20-year quest to be buried among the town’s founders in the historic Colonial Cemetery may have come to an end. The town appears to have discovered four “objects,” probably the bodies of earlier Salisbury residents or...
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