Tractor Supply was wise to return to its core mission

CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, PA. — Several dozen people walked through the Butler County Tractor Supply store Saturday afternoon, which lies along U.S. Route 19 — a two-lane highway that, one hundred years after its inception, is still the long-haul road that connects the Gulf of Mexico with Lake Erie.

Over the past 20 years, this section of Route 19 has gone from farmland in all directions to standing on the precipice of suburban Pittsburgh with stately palatial suburban homes intertwined with western Pennsylvania’s rural farmland, most of the inhabitants of conflicting forces finding a way to make it work.