Morning coffee brews dollars in Palouse

G.A. Perry, right, and Monte Nearing, foreground, sit at coffee Monday morning in Palouse. The group has raised $7,000 since last January.

A longtime Palouse coffee group has raised more than $7,000 in the past year and a half for various town causes.

The informal serving moved to the Roy M. Chatters Printing Museum in January of last year, after the Palouse Tavern closed.

Museum Director Janet Barstow, and volunteers Fred Spencer, Monte Nearing and Police Chief Jerry Neumann arranged for coffee to be served at tables in the museum.

At the time, a bank account was opened, a dishwasher, dorm-si...