Tyler Fenton shoots for uniqueness with all he does at Reilly Pizza & Drink, 101 E. Pennington St.

Open a restaurant in a long-time funeral home. Even keep the name and marquee of the funeral home.

Now he’s working on adding a beer garden in a former hearse garage out back. Don’t expect a Bud Light once it opens some time in spring. Don’t come to the beer garden for game night.

“We’re trying to set up an experience that hasn’t been done here,” Fenton said. “We’re trying to create a very unique destination.”

The beer garden will wrap around the back and one side of Reilly Pizza & Drink. In all, it will offer about 5,000 square feet, most of it shaded outdoors with 1,300 square feet indoors in the former hearse garage. But that will essentially be outdoors, too, as Fenton is figuring out how to create a garage door that folds upward.

Thomas Curley is back with a barber shop of his own at 18 E. Ochoa St.

Curley’s name had been above the door across from the

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