Two girls walk into a shop for strawberry and chocolate ice cream, and Ronda Dudeck rings them up. Scissors snap as a pair of women sit in front of mirrors and get their hair cut at a salon. Men drink beer at a noisy bar. There’s no shortage of activity in Sedalia on a recent afternoon. And yet the town is said to be “not currently existing” in a June 18 letter written by Douglas County authorities.

There was no shortage of ashtrays, matches and clouds of smoke at PT’s Showclub this week as topless women danced on stages inside the club. Turns out, at least three large metro-area strip clubs still allow smoking nearly one month after the statewide smoking ban began. The billboard above the entrance to PT’s advertises, “Still Smoking After All These Years . . .”