The Transylvania Times -

Demand for charitable services typically picks up around the holidays, and, recently, The Transylvania Times spoke with three local nonprofits offering help to the community’s low-income residents to discuss how COVID-19 and its accompanying recession have impacted their services this year.

At the Sharing House, one of the county’s most robust organizations for helping low-income residents (up to 200 percent above the poverty line), Executive Director Shelly Webb said the number of people who have requested financial assistance from September through the first week of December, compar...