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“too difficult to continue operating”

For almost 12 years, Juiced has been a familiar part of downtown Hallowell, Maine. Since opening in 2014, the locally owned business focused on one simple goal: making healthy food easy to find and affordable for people in Central Maine. […]

Sadly, Juiced has announced it will close on January 17. The decision comes after the sale of the building and rising rent costs made it too difficult to continue operating.

Very sad. We don’t frequent Hallowell as much these days, so we’re just now finding this out. (I went to church in Hallowell growing up. That church is now, uh… just a house, I guess.)

For various and often unrelated reasons, if not even chaotic ones, I think quite regularly of the last line in Lewis Turco’s “Habitation”: “Rejoice! Rejoice! The house is failing!”