Radio broadcaster selected as Ellsworth citizen of the year
Courtesy / Ellsworth Area Chamber of Commerce
Lamoine radio broadcaster and long-time town administrator Stu Marckoon was selected as the Ellsworth Area Chamber of Commerce’s 2020 Citizen of the Year.
A Lamoine radio broadcaster and long-time town administrator was selected as the Ellsworth Area Chamber of Commerce’s 2020 Citizen of the Year.
On March 16, Stu Marckoon of Lamoine was surprised on-the-air by the chamber’s executive director, Gretchen Wilson, during his morning radio show on Ellsworth radio station Star 97.7, according to a news release.
The award is presented yearly to “an outstanding individual who embodies community spirit thru volunteerism, community involvement and advocacy.”
Chamber criteria for the award includes community service to the Ellsworth area, service to others above and beyond one’s own profession, business or enterprise.
Marckoon moved to Ellsworth with his wife Bonnie in 1983. He became the first news director at then-fledgling Ellsworth radio station KISS 94 FM. He held the position until 1993, when he left to become Lamoine’s town administrator, a position he still holds today. In 2005, he dove back into radio to anchor the local morning news on Star 97.7.
Marckoon volunteers time each week to local nonprofits. He has been a Little League coach. Each year since the mid-1980s, he has played tuba in the Ellsworth Concert Band and the Fletcher’s Landing Philharmonic Orchestra. At the Grand, a performing arts center in Ellsworth, he has emceed numerous community events, including “Ellsworth’s Got Talent,” “So You Think You Know Ellsworth,” and “Dancing With the Ellsworth Stars.”
He has been the auctioneer at the Ellsworth Rotary Club Auction and emceed fundraisers for Maine Coast Memorial Hospital. He also sets up and loans his personal public address system to the town of Lamoine for its Memorial Day ceremonies and other events.
He is a high school baseball umpire, volleyball umpire and basketball referee.
“He takes the time to explain the rules and even the skills involved with patience and compassion to kids and parents,” Mark Remick of Maine Storage Plus said in the release.
Since the 1980s, he’s been a volunteer firefighter and serves as assistant fire chief for the town of Lamoine.
Marckoon will be honored at the chamber’s annual awards event scheduled for May 21 in a pop-up event center at the Maine Coast Mall. For more information, click here.
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