Marilyn Hagerty

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Marilyn Gail Hagerty (née Hansen; May 30, 1926 – September 16, 2025) was an American newspaper columnist who wrote for the Grand Forks Herald. She was with the paper from 1957 until 2024, when her husband, Jack Hagerty (1918–1997), became editor of the paper. She garnered a measure of fame in March 2012 when her review of a new Olive Garden restaurant in Grand Forks, North Dakota, was noticed by online news aggregators and became an overnight sensation among both critics and admirers. 

Hagerty died on September 16, 2025, at the age of 99 at a hospital in Grand Forks from complications of a stroke.

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