With COVID-19 cases surging, local restaurants are once again providing meals to health care workers and first responders – and keeping their lights on.

An anonymous Portland couple is making an impact with the help of a friend, who delivers envelopes for them with a $100 bill and a message of support.

Maine Needs has seen an increase in requests for food, hygiene products and baby supplies during the pandemic.

A small group of volunteers is distributing personal hygiene kits containing items donated from local businesses to Portland’s Preble Street shelter.

Two Portland women decided to donate theirs to charitable causes in the community. Together, they have created a website to encourage others to do the same.

Professional accordion player Gary Sredzienski has long been playing shows at nursing homes in southern Maine. Since the virus outbreak, he’s continued the gigs remotely for free.

YuJi Smith, 12, of Edgecomb donated 200 surgical face masks to the Maine Veterans’ Home in Augusta, courtesy of a relative in China and in honor of a World War II vet.

Don Bisson oversees the Biddeford Food Pantry, which has seen a 25 percent increase in client requests since the start of the pandemic.

‘I wait eagerly for the mailman,’ says a 92-year-old man who has been getting letters from first-graders in Dayton.