We were flying with Lufthansa at 38,000 feet, 453 mph with outside air temperature at minus 69 degrees. As we were hurtling through the air on our return flight, the airplane’s movie sound was garbled, and it was more entertaining to watch the flight tracker and look back over photos of our three-week trip from The Hague and Amsterdam to Vienna and Budapest.

The Mount Gilead girls’ basketball team showed a lot of resilience Wednesday in earning a hard-fought 44-42 home win over Utica, just days after the community suffered a loss.