Dan Pronti Archives - New Jersey Globe

The Watcher: North Arlington schools want to take a building from a church using eminent domain

June 25, 2025 5:42 amJuly 13, 2025 4:31 pm

Is there such a thing as Eminence Domain? This could be the start of a joke – five school board members are standing at the pearly gates – except that the brewing legal and political battle between the North Arlington...

Judge puts new mayoral candidate on ballot

October 23, 2018 3:23 pmOctober 23, 2018 3:48 pm

Superior Court Estela De La Cruz today ordered new ballots to be printed with Dan Pronti, a councilman, as the Republican candidate for mayor of North Arlington. The decision came after local Republicans complied with her order to hold an...

Appellate Court stays North Arlington ruling

October 19, 2018 12:43 pmOctober 19, 2018 2:24 pm

The race for mayor of North Arlington continues to be a mess. Today, an appellate court judge stayed the order of Superior Court Judge Robert Wilson to allow Republicans to replace Mayor Joseph Bianchi, who died on October 10, on...

Judge orders new candidate after votes already cast

October 12, 2018 4:37 pm

A Superior Court Judge today ruled that North Arlington Republicans can replace a deceased mayoral candidate on the November 6 ballot even though voting has already begun. Mayor Joseph Bianchi, who was seeking re-election to a second term, died on...