Brian Brehm

1 week ago | winchesterstar.com | Brian Brehm

WINCHESTER — Phillip and Diane Griffin skipped town over the weekend but it wasn't to escape the madness of The Bloom. Instead, they headed south to be part of another massive event that coincided with the 98th Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival: the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby. "We've been going regularly since 2017," Phillip S. Griffin II said of attending the famous horse race held annually in Louisville, Kentucky. "This was her seventh and my eighth. ...

1 week ago | winchesterstar.com | Brian Brehm

WINCHESTER — The queen has been whisked away from the land of pink and green, bringing a close to the 98th Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival. Sixteen-year-old Mary Clare Davis, a great-granddaughter of renowned evangelist Billy Graham, has resumed her life as a junior at Grace Christian School in Staunton. Before packing her bags and leaving Winchester, Davis gushed about what a great time she had since arriving on Wednesday with her mother, Noelle Davis.

1 week ago | winchesterstar.com | Brian Brehm

WINCHESTER — He is a member of one of the most powerful family dynasties in Hollywood history and has starred alongside legendary actors including Robert DeNiro, Harvey Keitel and Richard Harris. Yet many people think he's just a nerd. Robert Carradine — the son of John Carradine ("The Grapes of Wrath," "House of Dracula") and brother of Keith Carradine ("Nashville," "Dexter") and David Carradine ("Kung Fu," "Kill Bill Vols.

2 weeks ago | winchesterstar.com | Brian Brehm

WINCHESTER — It almost sounds like the start of a bad joke: a Black businessman, a Black man from the mean streets of D.C. and a white political conservative walk into a room and decide to launch a podcast. But this is no joke. Rather, this unlikely alliance was forged by a shared desire to understand why people are divided and to seek common ground.

2 weeks ago | winchesterstar.com | Brian Brehm

WINCHESTER — Queen-designate Mary Clare Davis greeted her subjects Thursday night at The Village at Orchard Ridge Queen’s Dinner in the Millwood Station Banquet Hall near Winchester. The 16-year-old who will reign over the 98th Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival arrived in town Wednesday night and was impressed by what she saw. “I’m loving it,” Davis said while waiting to enter the banquet hall beneath a sabre arch provided by Randolph-Macon Academy cadets.