New bar and restaurant being built in Palouse

A town without a bar is about to return to being a town with a bar.

Palouse resident Will Hume and several partners began construction on what will be a new “Palouse Caboose” bar and grill.

The wooden structure going up at the corner of Beech and Main Street will be a new version of a onetime tavern in Palouse.

Hume, a furniture maker who grew up in Moscow and spent years working in restaurants in Portland, Ore., and Pullman, bought 8,500 square feet of land from a consortium of families to place the new restaurant.

It’s located away from the street, on the southern half of the property, in or...