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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The surfer who holds the distinction of being the 23rd record shark-bite victim, even though he only received a slight cut and jumped right back into the waves after being bit on his heel just before noon Sunday, has been identified as 44-year-old David Logan of Jupiter, the Volusia County Beach Patrol confirmed.

Even though it was ''the weakest'' shark bite he'd ever seen, Beach Patrol Capt. spokesman Scott Petersohn said nevertheless it still counts, breaking the record 22 bite victims recorded in 2001, then dubbed "the year of the shark."

No Karenia brevis, the Florida red-tide organism, was detected this week in water samples collected from the Indian River Lagoon (Brevard and Indian River counties) nor were there any evidence of Karenia brevis, the Florida red tide organism, detected this week in water samples collected alongshore between Pinellas and Monroe counties. Offshore samples collected north of the Florida Keys also contained no K. brevis.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Howrah! Howrah! Ron Sachs came marching home and got a hero's welcome today after 10 months in harm's way in Afghanistan with the 101st Airborne. Sachs was met at Daytona Beach International Airport just after 1:30 p.m. by his wife, Melinda, their two children and dozens of family members and friends, along with a police motors escort back to his home on the beachside. Sachs, 40, is a New Smyrna Beach cop.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- An unidentified 44-year-old surfer became the recrd-breaking 23rd shark-bite victim at noon today when he was nipped on the foot, the Volusia County Beach Patrol reported.

The surfer received a Band-aid from a lifeguard for a small cut and went right back into the water.

The man, whose name wasn't immediately available, was surfing near the South Jetty where surfers and sharks share the water. The bite broke the 2001 record of 22 such attacks, then dubbed the "year of the shark."

Sarah Palin is the oiliest kind of care-taker of the environment, the antithesis of everything Hillary Clinton and her supporters stand for, and a total fraud in claiming any title to feminism or credentials for national office.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Special events bring our community to a standstill certain times of the year.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A retired police chief armed with 40 years of budgeting experience and backed by more than 200 supporters told the New Smyrna Beach City Commission at Wednesday's public hearing that an 11.2 percent mill-rate increase was not going to fly and that there would be hell to pay come election time or even sooner through voter recalls for any of them who didn't heed his warnings. He got his way and that means $1 million has to be cut unless the city dips into already dangerously low reserves.

New Smyrna Beach Revised Millage.

New Smyrna Beach Proposed Budget.

Sept. 24, 2008 -- Daniel J. LaPolla and Caylyne A. Shelton, New Smyrna Beach.

Sept. 23, 2008 -- Stanislaw B. Ziemlinski, New Smyrna Beach, and Eleonora Pyszczorska, Opole, Poland.

Sept. 20, 2008 -- John P. Von Albade and Ruth E. Swanitz, Edgewater.

Sept. 19, 2008 -- Jeremy W. Starliper and Kimberly R. Rhodes, New Smyrna Beach.

Sept. 18, 2008 -- Michael J. Chamberlin and Michaelina R. Guynn, Edgewater.