Word: wilmington
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...tractors just keep coming around the corner of Mulberry and Main in downtown Wilmington, Ohio, a sputtering battalion of Oliver Super 55s, McCormick Farmalls and Minneapolis Molines--the stars of the Clinton County Corn Festival's 1997 parade. Families line the sidewalks, children wave to the farmers as they pass, but after 20 minutes Kathy Wiley has seen enough. A sylphlike executive secretary at Warner Bros. in Burbank, Calif., Wiley, 31, switches off her videocamera and wrinkles her nose at her husband Jim, who is busy snapping photos...
...June, Jim quit his job as a manager at Warner Bros. and took a position in Wilmington (pop. 13,000) with Technicolor's fast-growing film-distribution unit, one of many cutting-edge firms relocating to small-town America. He is elated at the move, but Kathy, born and raised in the San Fernando Valley, isn't so sure. Still working at Warner Bros. and settling affairs in Burbank, she came to Wilmington for the first time a week before the parade, wearing a fixed smile and a dazed, where-am-I? stare. The couple spent the week house hunting...
...Capano family, credited with the rapid commercial development of Wilmington, has its share of dirty laundry. In the late 1980s, Louis admitted making illegal campaign contributions. He also participated in an FBI sting that led to the conviction of a county councilman. Another brother, Joseph, 43, was arrested and charged with kidnapping and raping a 27-year-old woman in 1991. He later pleaded guilty to assault, imprisonment and unlawful sexual contact...
Though her family was not as prominent as the Capanos, it was just as well known around Wilmington. Their worlds melded at O'Friel's Irish Pub, where yellow ribbons and a "Friends of Anne Marie" banner now hang. Nicknamed "The Attorney General's Annex Office," O'Friel's is also a place where all five of Fahey's siblings have been employed. It is there that they congregated after Capano's arrest, eating a quiet dinner upstairs. Says O'Friel's owner Kevin Freel: "We sat and talked, and we cried." Fahey, Freel says, left an indelible impression...
CHARLOTTE FALTERMAYER has been following the trail of Anne Marie Fahey since the secretary, who worked for Delaware Governor Thomas Carper, disappeared 17 months ago. Last May, Faltermayer traveled to Fahey's Wilmington home and scouted out the posh neighborhood of her lover--and accused killer--Thomas Capano. After Capano was arrested, Faltermayer staked out O'Friel's pub, unofficial headquarters of the hunt for Fahey--or her murderer. For Faltermayer, detective stories are becoming familiar territory. She reported on a 1977 Philadelphia slaying and on the 1990 art heist at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Says...