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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001171843-15-006278
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	8-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		3
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20151109
ITEM INFORMATION:		Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
ITEM INFORMATION:		Other Events
ITEM INFORMATION:		Financial Statements and Exhibits
FILED AS OF DATE:		20151112
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20151112

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			STERLING CONSTRUCTION CO INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000874238
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	HEAVY CONSTRUCTION OTHER THAN BUILDING CONST - CONTRACTORS [1600]
		IRS NUMBER:				251655321
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		8-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-31993
		FILM NUMBER:		151222745

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		2751 CENTERVILLE RD.
		STREET 2:		SUITE 3131
		CITY:			WILMINGTON
		STATE:			DE
		ZIP:			19803
		BUSINESS PHONE:		3024789170

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		20810 FERNBUSH LANE
		CITY:			HOUSTON
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			77073

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	OAKHURST CO INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19950831

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	OAKHURST CAPITAL INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19931130
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<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; margin: 3pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 12pt"><B>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 12pt"><B>Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934</B></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; margin: 0pt 0">Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): <B>November 9,
2015</B></P>

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INC.</B></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; margin: 0pt 0">(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</P>

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    <td colspan="2" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center">1800 Hughes Landing Blvd.</td>
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    <td colspan="2" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center">The Woodlands, Texas</td>
    <TD STYLE="font-weight: bold; text-align: center">77380</td></tr>
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    <td colspan="3" style="text-align: center">Registrant&rsquo;s telephone number, including area code:&nbsp;&nbsp;<font style="font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal"><b>(281) 214-0800</b></font></td></tr>
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to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction
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<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left; margin: 0pt 0"><B>Item 5.02 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of
Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers</B>.</P>

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<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left; margin: 0pt 0">Effective November 9, 2015, Ronald A. Ballschmiede, 59, was elected
Executive Vice President &amp; Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Mr.&nbsp;Ballschmiede was also elected Chief Accounting
Officer of the Company. He replaces Kevan M. Blair, who has held those positions on an interim basis since July 2015, and who,
effective with Mr.&nbsp;Ballschmiede's election, has resumed his former position as Senior Vice President, Corporate Finance.</P>

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<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">From June 2006 until his retirement in
March 2015, Mr.&nbsp;Ballschmiede was Executive Vice President &amp; Chief Financial Officer of Chicago Bridge &amp; Iron Company
N.V. (CB&amp;I). </FONT>Based in The Haag, Netherlands, CB&amp;I is a leading engineering, procurement and construction contractor
with approximately $13 billion in sales and 54,000 employees. <FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">Prior to that, from July 2002 to June
2006 he was a partner of Deloitte, and from June 1977 to July 2002, he was at Arthur Andersen where he became a partner in 1989.
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<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left; margin: 0pt 0">Mr.&nbsp;Ballschmiede joined the Board of Directors of SemGroup Corporation
of Tulsa, Oklahoma in November 2009, and served as Chairman of its Audit Committee from November 2009 to May, 2015. In addition
to continuing to serve on its Audit Committee, since May 2015, Mr.&nbsp;Ballschmiede has served as Chairman of its Nominating and
Governance Committee. SemGroup is a New York Stock Exchange company that moves energy through a network of pipelines, terminals
and storage tanks, primarily for independent oil and natural gas producers in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the United
Kingdom.</P>

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<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left; margin: 0pt 0">Mr.&nbsp;Ballschmiede holds a B.S. in Accounting from Northern Illinois
University and is a Certified Public Accountant.</P>

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<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left; margin: 0pt 0">Mr.&nbsp;Ballschmiede will be compensated, as follows:</P>

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    <TD STYLE="width: 82%; text-align: left"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">$400,000</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: left"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">Restricted Stock Award:</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: left"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">An award of 100,000 shares of the Company's common stock subject to restrictions on their sale or transfer that lapse in two equal installments on the first two anniversaries of the November 9, 2015 award date.&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: left"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">Mr.&nbsp;Ballschmiede will participate in any incentive compensation plan that is adopted by the Company's Compensation Committee for 2016 with a target incentive compensation of 170% of his salary.&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: left"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">Mr.&nbsp;Ballschmiede is entitled to the same health, life insurance, disability and other like benefits as are made available to the Company's senior managers generally, and on the same terms and conditions as well as four weeks of paid time off, which includes sick time and vacation.&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left; margin: 0pt 0"><B>Item 8.01 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Other Events</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left; margin: 0pt 0">On November 9, 2015, the Company issued a press release announcing
Mr.&nbsp;Ballschmiede's election as Executive Vice President &amp; Chief Financial Officer. A copy of the press release is furnished
herewith as Exhibit 99.1 to this Form&nbsp;8-K.</P>

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and Exhibits</B>.</P>

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<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left; margin: 0pt 0">(c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#9;<I>Exhibits</I></P>

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<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin: 0pt 0">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: justify">Date:&nbsp;&nbsp;November 12, 2015</td>
    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: justify">Sterling Construction Company, Inc<FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal">.</FONT></td></tr>
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    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="vertical-align: middle; text-align: justify; padding-left: 10pt">Roger M. Barzun</td></tr>
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    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="vertical-align: middle; text-align: justify; padding-left: 10pt"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal">Senior Vice President</FONT></td></tr>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: left"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">Press release, dated November 9, 2015 (furnished herewith)</FONT></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="margin: 0pt 0; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt"><B><U>STERLING CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
APPOINTS RONALD A. BALLSCHMIEDE</U></B></FONT></P>

<P STYLE="margin: 0pt 0; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt"><B><U>EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT &amp;
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER</U></B></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="margin: 0pt 0; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify">THE WOODLANDS, TX &mdash; November 9, 2015 &mdash; Sterling Construction
Company, Inc. (NasdaqGS:<FONT STYLE="color: windowtext">STRL</FONT>) (&ldquo;Sterling&rdquo; or &ldquo;the Company&rdquo;) today
announced that Ronald A. Ballschmiede has been named Executive Vice President &amp; Chief Financial Officer effective November
9, 2015 and that Kevan Blair will resume<FONT STYLE="color: black"> his role as Senior Vice President, Corporate Finance. </FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="margin: 0pt 0; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify">Mr. Ballschmiede brings nearly 40 years of accounting and financial
management experience to Sterling, most recently with Chicago Bridge &amp; Iron (NYSE: CBI) (&ldquo;CB&amp;I&rdquo;), where he
served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from June 2006 to March 2015. Based in The Haag, Netherland, with
its administrative office in The Woodlands, Texas, CB&amp;I is a leading engineering, procurement and construction contractor with
approximately $13 billion in sales and 54,000 employees.</P>

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<P STYLE="margin: 0pt 0; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify">Prior to joining CB&amp;I, Ron was a Partner with Deloitte &amp;
Touche LLP, joining the firm in 2002. Previously, he had been with Arthur Andersen since 1977, becoming a Partner in 1989. While
with Andersen, Ballschmiede was the Lead Client Service Partner for CB&amp;I from 1989 to 2002. In addition, he led the manufacturing
and industrial products audit practice and served a number of major manufacturing and construction companies. He holds a B.S. in
Accounting from Northern Illinois University and is a Certified Public Accountant.</P>

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<P STYLE="margin: 0pt 0; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify">&ldquo;We feel very fortunate to have Ron join our organization,&rdquo;
stated Paul J. Varello, Sterling&rsquo;s Chief Executive Officer. &ldquo;We are confident that Ron&rsquo;s experience in managing
a highly sophisticated global finance operation will translate into the adoption and implementation of best practices for Sterling.
CB&amp;I is a very large, world class construction company with an outstanding track record of executing complex construction projects,
particularly for energy infrastructure markets. The Board and I want to thank Kevan Blair for stepping in as Interim CFO on short
notice in July. Kevan&rsquo;s efforts over the last several months have been critical to supporting the turnaround that is now
underway at Sterling. We are pleased that we will continue to benefit from his hard work and expertise as he returns to the role
of our Senior Vice President, Corporate Finance.&rdquo;</P>

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<P STYLE="margin: 0pt 0; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; background-color: white">Sterling is a leading heavy civil construction
company that specializes in the building and reconstruction of transportation and water infrastructure projects in Texas, Utah,
Nevada, Arizona, California, Hawaii, and other states where there are profitable construction opportunities. Its transportation
infrastructure projects include highways, roads, bridges and light rail. Its water infrastructure projects include water, wastewater
and storm drainage systems.</P>

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<P STYLE="margin: 0pt 0; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify">This press release includes certain statements that fall within
the definition of &ldquo;forward-looking statements&rdquo; under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any such
statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, including overall economic and market conditions, federal, state and local government
funding, competitors&rsquo; and customers&rsquo; actions, and weather conditions, which could cause actual results to differ materially
from those anticipated, including those risks identified in the Company&rsquo;s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Accordingly, such statements should be considered in light of these risks. Any prediction by the Company is only a statement of
management&rsquo;s belief at the time the prediction is made. There can be no assurance that any prediction once made will continue
thereafter to reflect management&rsquo;s belief, and the Company does not undertake to update publicly its predictions or to make
voluntary additional disclosures of nonpublic information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.</P>

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        <P STYLE="margin: 0pt 0; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify">Sterling Construction Company, Inc.</P>
        <P STYLE="margin: 0pt 0; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify">Jennifer Maxwell, Director of Investor Relations</P>
        <P STYLE="margin: 0pt 0; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify">281-951-3560</P></TD>
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        <P STYLE="margin: 0pt 0; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify">The Equity Group, Inc.</P>
        <P STYLE="margin: 0pt 0; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify">Fred Buonocore&nbsp;&nbsp;212-836-9607</P>
        <P STYLE="margin: 0pt 0; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify">Linda Latman&nbsp;&nbsp;212-836-9609</P></TD></TR>
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