Statewide
Distilleries around Maine, including Newcastle’s Split Rock Distilling and Portland’s Maine Craft Distilling, have started using their boozy equipment to make hand sanitizer, supplying both hospitals and individual customers.
Portland
The Maine Flag Company is donating all profits from its Heart of It All flag — a red heart set against a white banner — to provide meals from local restaurants to frontline health-care workers.
Gorham
Flowfold, maker of wallets, bags, and travel gear, is shifting all of its resources into making face shields for healthcare workers. Its first thousand shields, manufactured in eight days, went to Portland’s Maine Medical Center.
Brewer
Joseph Meyers started a Quarantine Karaoke group on Facebook that quickly attracted more than 400,000 members from around the world and drew thousands of posts of people belting it out at home.
Camden
Seamsters across the state have been sewing medical masks at home, and local real-estate developer Michael Mullins set up a not-for-profit production center — Mid-Coast Pop Up PPE Factory — to help produce protective masks and gowns for health-care workers.
Rockland
The Center for Maine Contemporary Art, closed during the pandemic, has launched free virtual tours of its current exhibitions so that visitors can experience the galleries from the safety of their homes.
Freeport
L.L.Bean partnered with Good Shepherd Food Bank to pre-box provisions to send to food pantries in each of Maine’s 16 counties, simplifying the distribution from those local pantries to individuals and families in need.