The search continues for a new executive director for the Freeport Area Chamber of Commerce. According to interim director Caroline Krahn, the organization has received resumes from a handful of promising candidates.

“We are getting a good response,” said Krahn. “ We hope to find someone local or with local roots. It’s a wonderful opportunity in a great area.”

Krahn said the right candidate will have both business savvy and be a “relationship builder.”

“We want to continue our membership gains and have a long-term person in place as we grow,’ said Krahn.

The new executive director wiill be the third in the last six moths for the chamber, a high rate of turnover that does alarm Krahn.

“Both were great people, so we have no regrets,” she said,

Doug Porter, 60, who joined the chamber as its executive director on Nov. 13, announced on Jan. 2 he was resigning for personal reasons. Porter left Maine to return to Florida, where he had lived for 10 years before taking the post in Freeport late last year.

Porter, the former head of the York Chamber of Commerce and the Gateway to Maine Chamber of Commerce, joined the chamber to replace Deb King, who left in September to become the executive director of the Brunswick Downtown Association.

Krahn hopes to have the new executive director in place by the first of April.