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CALUMET When Calumet-Laurium-Keweenaw (CLK) Schools purchased the former Aspirus At Home building, at 311 Sixth Street, in the village in 2020, it was not with any intension of interfering with zoning, marijuana ordinances or buffer zones around school buildings. In fact, recreational or medical marijuana businesses within Calumet Village, or Calumet Township, had nothing to do with the school district purchasing the building that was, decades before, Pat Campioni’s grocery store.
Superintendent Christopher Davidson said if anything, it was an afterthought.
“I didn’t think of it at the time,” he said, “but then as conversations were going, the focus of our conversations was on our main campus and the proximity to certain buildings within the village limits, then I said, kind of like an ‘Oh! Geez, by the way: we just purchased this building that may or may not factor into it. ”