In 2023 Virginia and the Richmond area said goodbye to bright lights in business and civic life, politics and the arts, as well as storied high school and college coaches.
The world had Oprah. Richmond had Bernie. Longtime television journalist Bernadine A. “Bernie” Simmons, who died Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, at age 79, was well known to many in Richmond and surrounding communities as the creator and face of NBC12’s popular “12 About Town” news show.