Kansas has by far the shortest segment of Route 66 of all eight states. Along the 13.2-mile stretch, we found one town that hasn’t stopped the presses.

Mule Creek State Prison near Sacramento has a newspaper, as does Pelican Bay State Prison in Northern California. The Paper Trail at CCWF is the fourth, and latest, prison newspaper in the state.

She wrote front-page stories about changes to the city’s animal ordinance and the county’s efforts to clean up an illegal dumping site. She laid out the rest of the week’s 10-page paper: Obituaries on ...