Bellingham port director retires

Bellingham port director retires    Jim Darling, executive director of the Port of Bellingham for 15 years, said he will resign his post effective July 10 to take a new job as vice president and principal of the consulting firm Maul Foster &
Alongi Inc.
   MFA is a full-service planning, environmental, engineering, landscape architecture, GIS, and sustainability consulting firm and Darling will operate from a new office in Bellingham working with clients in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, California and Nevada.
   The port’s Board of Commissioners is expected to appoint an interim executive director at its June 2 meeting, while a search is conducted for a new leader.