Monica Benevides

The Worcester Beer Garden will reopen on Tuesday following a winter closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, business leadership announced Sunday night.

Massachusetts customers who bought electricity from competitive suppliers paid $426 million more in bills over the last five years than they would have if they stayed with their traditional utility companies, with low-income folks and people of color brunting the highest rates, according to a Thursday report from state Attorney General Maura Healey.

The City of Worcester License Commission voted to extend the city’s temporary outdoor dining program through the end of the calendar year on Thursday.

Work is underway on a new cabinet-making shop at Old Sturbridge Village, marking the first addition to the Village’s Common in more than 50 years, the living museum announced on Thursday.

President Joe Biden signed off on Tuesday on a bill extending the deadline for Paycheck Protection Program applications to May 31.

Calare Properties, a Framingham developer, plans to break ground on a planned 119,000-square-foot flexible industrial building at 50 Nagog Park in Acton on May 1, the company announced Wednesday.

MacFawn Fire & Flood Restoration, a New York company, is opening a location in Worcester on Thursday, where it will primarily focus on commercial water damage restoration, mold remediation and biohazard cleanup, the company announced.

James E. Levin, a real estate developer formerly of Natick and now residing on Nantucket, was sentenced to 37 months in prison over a $2.3 million fraud scheme related to redeveloping a multi-family home at 5 May St. in Worcester, the U.S. Attorney’s office announced on Tuesday.

Rushford & Sons Brewhouse is Upton’s first known brewery. Years in the making, the company officially opened for business on Dec. 3, offering exclusively canned beer sales.

Needham-based Bowdoin Construction Corp. has named Rod Shaffert as vice president and project executive, designating him as leader of the company’s Worcester branch, the firm announced Monday.