After a marathon four-hour meeting Thursday night, the Cumberland County Board of Education chose a temporary band-aid fix to the problem of overcrowding at Martin Elementary School. The board has been discussing the possibility of several different options in the past few weeks, and last week, the Building and Grounds Committee recommended that the board use Option 1 which would have rerouted 124 Martin children along Creston Rd. and Northside Drive areas to Pleasant Hill and North Elementary. The board decided to also add Option 2 which would send an additional 21 students to Pleasant Hill and bring Martin numbers down from 830 to 685.  Numerous motions were made and just as many were shot down. At one point a parent addressed the board saying that members had over-looked parent’s comments on the matter to which Rep. Josh Stone replied that the entire process had not been taken lightly by the board. When the smoke had all cleared, Stone made a motion to reconsider a previous motion that would take into effect Option 1 and 2 plus would grandfather 7 and 8 Grade students who were already at Martin but not their siblings.  That motion finally passed 5-3. (105.7 News)