{"id":14288,"date":"2025-10-25T00:21:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T00:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/14288\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T00:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T00:21:16","slug":"lackawanna-county-commissioner-debate-newsbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/14288\/","title":{"rendered":"Lackawanna County Commissioner Debate &#8211; NewsBreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761351676_528_image\" alt=\"https:\/\/img.particlenews.com\/image.php?url=3QElXR_15wNCoBt00\" width=\"934\" height=\"533\"\/><\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU)\u2014 Residents in Lackawanna County will have their first chance to hear candidates debate why they should be the next commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday morning, Brenda Sacco was sworn in as the interim county commissioner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.2822news.com\/news\/previewing-the-lackawanna-commish-debate\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Previewing the Lackawanna Commish. Debate <\/a><\/p>\n<p>She will have that post for only 12 days.<\/p>\n<p>Independent Michael Cappelini, Republican Chet Merli, and Democrat Thom Welby have been campaigning since the beginning of September.<\/p>\n<p>Hear what all the candidates have to say before the General Election on November 4.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.2822news.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU)\u2014 Residents in Lackawanna County will have their first chance to hear candidates debate why&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2376,10833,182,2375,178,180,179,2374],"class_list":["post-14288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-breaking-news","tag-lackawanna-county-commissioner-debate","tag-local-news","tag-newsbreak","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-wbre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}