SCRANTON, Pa. — Brenda Sacco, nearly two months after a panel of Lackawanna County judges selected her to temporarily fill the seat vacated by former Commissioner Matt McGloin, will be sworn-in Wednesday to serve at least the next two weeks.

News of Sacco’s appointment comes a day after a state Supreme Court ruling that upheld the primacy of the county’s Home Rule Charter in deciding the process for filling a vacated elected position.

Still planned, however, is a special election Nov. 4 to determine McGloin’s long-term replacement.

"The special election on Nov. 4 will decide who permanently fills the vacancy,” said Bill Gaughan, the Democratic commissioner elected alongside McGloin. “I am very comforted by the knowledge that the voters of Lackawanna County will decide who permanently

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