Southampton Press: While many of today’s high school seniors will head off to college after graduation, a smaller group will have no such plans, according to Peter Zarcone (pictured left), an executive board member of the General Builders Laborers Local 66, a Melville-based union.

And those are the teenagers who could benefit from a different kind of higher education, one that could eventually lead to paid jobs in the construction industry, Mr. Zarcone said while pitching a new idea to Southampton Town Board members at last week’s work session.... MORE

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