A Hollis woman has been making cloth masks to help others during the pandemic – and she isn’t shy about offering them to people she encounters in public.

A Falmouth woman and her young son take an anxious trip to the store, only to find that other shoppers feel the same uneasiness about being out in public during a pandemic.

When Joyce Baughan was feverish and achy early this year, no one was testing for COVID-19. But she had the symptoms, as did two siblings who live nearby.

Mary Ann Gordon and her husband, Peter, have recuperated from their bouts with COVID-19. Now Mary Ann is a donor of plasma with antibodies, and encourages others to do the same.

‘It’s a challenge coping when you’re in your 70s and sheltering at home. But Bill’s stories put the virus at bay.’

High school junior Isabella Castrucci is separated from friends and a sister battling leukemia. She hopes ‘to not take anything in life for granted again.’

Janette Sweem is grateful for the help she has received during ‘a hellish year.’ She is dealing with chemotherapy treatments and worries for her daughter aboard the virus-infected USS Kidd.

Doris ‘Dolly’ Roach had tuberculosis in the 1950s, and was bedridden in a sanatorium for more than four years.

A Brunswick woman suffered with a fever and had difficulty breathing for weeks after being declared presumptive-positive for COVID-19.

Emma Belanger, 17, of Gray keeps up with classes and homework, and the increased hours at her job as a cashier.