Arold Construction News Today

1: Former Saugerties Police Chief Joseph Sinagra says he has been terminated from a state position as a law enforcement liaison for the Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee without justifiable cause despite being put there by the New York state Police Chiefs Association. 2: The Appellate Division of the state Supreme Court upholds a lower court […]

KINGSTON, N.Y. — The family of a longtime city sign-making company has completed a gut renovation of a former building once operated as a Hupmobile car dealership by a relative in the 1930s. Paul and Joseph Beichert, owners of Timely Signs, have completed the renovation of 36 St. James St., which is quickly being occupied […]

KINGSTON, N.Y. — The City’s Common Council will share and discuss ideas for modifications to the city’s apprenticeship program at a Laws and Rules Committee meeting Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall. Common Council Majority Leader Reynolds Scott-Childress said city lawmakers will vet ideas good and bad, during a recent budget hearing for the […]

KINGSTON, N.Y. — The City’s Common Council voted 7-2 Monday to override Mayor Steve Noble’s veto of legislation pertaining to a change in the city’s apprenticeship program that favored union shops. Casting the only no votes on the veto were Bryant “Drew” Andrews, D-Ward 7, and Michele Hirsch D-Ward 9, in a meeting that was […]

KINGSTON, N.Y. — In an attempt to end the “back and forth, back and forth” nature of apprenticeship guideline deliberations in the city, aldermen removed a requirement that contractors bidding on city contracts over $100,000 have three annual graduates from their apprenticeship programs. The Common Council voted 8-1 to amend the guidelines on Tuesday, with […]

KINGSTON, N.Y. — City lawmakers laid plans to make apprenticeship guidelines less prohibitive for small contractors, eliminating an annual graduation requirement that Common Council Majority Leader Reynolds Scott-Childress, D-Ward 3, said was “problematic.” At a Common Council Caucus meeting on Monday, Oct. 2, city aldermen said they planned to vote on an alteration to apprenticeship […]