Maddie Biertempfel, Centre County Gazette

The walls of Ruth Kazez’s State College home are adorned with art — self-portraits drawn with charcoal, colorful collages, watery images of fish, a painting of three rats. Some span several feet wide: like her 84-inch painting of two cockroaches, or a camel that covers the wall by her kitchen an

The Lemont streetscape project, nearly a decade in the making, will take a big step toward completion this week when College Township presents final plans for improving Pike Street.