A former Downeast Magazine editor and her family are coping with isolation during a lockdown in the Cayman Islands.

Sean O’Connor boarded a vessel in January and expected to be home in April. But the pandemic has had him trapped aboard ship in Singapore for months.

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.

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.

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.

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