Thursday need-to-know: 5 stories

1. A doubleheader sweep! The Dakota Wesleyan men's and women's basketball teams beat in-state rival Mount Marty at the Corn Palace. Bonus game highlights and bonus photo gallery! 

2. The South Dakota Department of Transportation is boosting its snow-removal arsenal with more tow-plows. Check them out here. 

3. The Mitchell City Council unanimously agreed to completely shut down a portion of Sanborn for a spring-summer construction project. 

4. Heard of Nash Hutmacher? He's won 78 consecutive high school wrestling matches -- he's a sophomore. Bonus video, too. 

5. Our monthly Palace City Profile column features Nick and Dezarae Cundy, a married couple who met while working at Mitchell's Culver's. 

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