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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.
GEORGETOWN – The town’s Conservation Agent, which reports to the Conservation Commission, is being paid even less than she thought. Michele Grenier’s contracted salary when she started with this town is now $49,000 instead of $65,000. For weeks, Grenier, an...
NEWBURYPORT – Dozens of passionate artists and photographers rallied on Market Square in Newburyport in support of saving the famous Pink House. Cars honked in opposition to the U.S. government putting the 100-year-old icon up for auction, possibly as soon as this...
ROWLEY – A spat erupted in the town’s Planning Board last week over who would be its chairman, but no member, including long-time chair Chris Thornton, is resigning. Thornton and vice chair David Jaquith threatened to quit the board and walked out of the meeting after...
MERRIMACK RIVER – What does the Merrimack and the Seine flowing through Paris during this summer’s Olympics have in common? For more than a century, the Seine and the Merrimack have been so polluted with raw sewage and industrial waste, humans and their animals were...
By Stewart Lytle, Reporter GEORGETOWN – The Conservation Agent, which reports to the town’s Conservation Commission, is embroiled in a new controversy. A year and a half ago, Steve Przyjemski was the first conservation agent to resign after 17 years working for the...
IPSWICH — To listen to Neil Shea of the Ipswich River Watershed Assn., a lot of shad, herring and baby fish are looking forward to the town removing the Ipswich Mills Dam from the river in downtown. The dam, built in 1908 to produce power for the mills along the...
GEORGETOWN – The schools, police and fire departments may have to take a sizable financial hit next year to balance the town’s budget after the voters turned down a proposed $3 million property tax hike. The town has called a Special Town Meeting at 7 p.m., Monday,...
Could Newbury Take the Pink House? By Stewart Lytle, Reporter PLUM ISLAND TURNPIKE --The fight to save the nearly 100-year-old Pink House continues, although the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (F&WS) has handed it over to the federal General Services Administration...
May Named Acting Chief By Stewart Lytle, Reporter ROWLEY — For 36 years, Stephen May has dreamed he might serve this town as its police chief. As of last week, his wish was realized. The dream started when he was hired as a part-time police dispatcher in 1988 and was...
Market Landing Park Dedicated By Stewart Lytle, Reporter NEWBURYPORT — It has been “many, many months” in the making, Mayor Sean Reardon said last week. But next week, the city will dedicate and celebrate its new signature park, Market Landing Park, and a rebuilt...
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