A western Massachusetts native with state and town government experience has returned to the area to serve as town manager of Lenox . Christopher Ketchen says he always had the goal of becoming a town manager. And it just so happened that a chance to accomplish that popped up half an hour from where he grew up. “It’s not often that you get to have your personal goals and your professional goals achieved in accepting a job, but that was certainly the case when the Lenox opportunity came up,” Ketchen said. The 37-year-old Ketchen grew up in Alford and worked in the division of local services within the Massachusetts Department of Revenue in Boston. He has also served as the deputy director of general government in Wellesley and most recently as the finance director in Hopkinton . Hans Larsen is the executive director for the town of Wellesley . After working with Ketchen for four years, Larsen says Ketchen was destined to work in government. “Very high degree of ethics and responsibility
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