Sundays can be days for catching up on things, including important local stories you may have missed in last week’s daily digital editions of The Press-Register. So to help you out, here are some of the stories our readers found most interesting last week.

Lifting MLK Avenue to previous heights: It was once Mobile’s ‘Black Main Street,’ populated with African-American-owned businesses and visited by the likes of Jackie Robinson, Elvis Presley and Martin Luther King Jr. Community leaders, Lede reporter Margaret Kates reports, are hoping to revitalize MLK Avenue and its surrounding neighborhoods through the creation of a civil rights and cultural heritage district.

Civic center in jeopardy: The discovery of 16,000 loose bricks at the civic center theater raises questions as to the safety of the 60-year-old facility, writes AL.com’s John Sharp. City leaders, however, have already balked at a $287,000 repair with the construction of a new venue on the horizon. For now, however,the civic center’s immediate future rests in the hands of structural engineers to determine if it remains safe for patrons.