{"id":291,"date":"2025-09-19T11:15:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T15:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/star977fm.com\/?page_id=291"},"modified":"2026-02-23T07:11:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:11:33","slug":"stu-marcoon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/star977fm.com\/index.php\/about\/our-all-star-staff\/stu-marcoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Stu Marckoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-173\" class=\"post-173 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-192 alignleft lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/star977fm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/StuMarckoon140x200-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"200\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 140px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 140\/200;\" \/>Stu Marckoon, began his radio career in 1977 while still in high school in Rockland. After earning a degree in accounting at Husson College, he was a radio news reporter in Bangor, then the news director at WVII-TV in Bangor. In 1983 Stu moved to Ellsworth to work for the owners of Star 97.7 and has won about every major news award from both the Maine Association of Broadcasters and the Associated Press. When he\u2019s not working radio, Stu is the Town Administrator for Lamoine, the Deputy Fire Chief in Lamoine, a certified basketball and volleyball referee and a certified baseball umpire, and he\u2019s the tuba player for both the Ellsworth Concert Band and the Fletcher\u2019s Landing Philharmonic Orchestra. He and his wife Bonnie live in Lamoine and have two grown daughters, and two cats.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4261\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-4261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stu Marckoon at the MAB awards in August in 2013.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"at-below-post-page addthis_tool\" data-url=\"https:\/\/star977.com\/stu-marckoon-2\/\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<aside class=\"content-bottom\">\n<div class=\"text-area widget-area\" role=\"complementary\">\n<div class=\"bottom-widget\">\n<h2><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stu Marckoon, began his radio career in 1977 while still in high school in Rockland. After earning a degree in accounting at Husson College, he was a radio news reporter in Bangor, then the news director at WVII-TV in Bangor. In 1983 Stu moved to Ellsworth to work for the owners of Star 97.7 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":233,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-291","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/star977fm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/star977fm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/star977fm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/star977fm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/star977fm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/star977fm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/291\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/star977fm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/star977fm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}