2012 Wisconsin Annual State Trail Passes are now available for sale at Fitchburg City Hall at 5520 Lacy Road. The passes are $20 each and are available through the Recreation and Clerk's Departments on the 2nd Floor of Fitchburg City Hall.

State Trail Passes can be used as your permit to bike, horseback ride, cross-country ski, in-line skate or off-highway motorcycle on appropriately marked Wisconsin State Trails.

Locally in Fitchburg, the State Trail Pass can be used for recreational biking or bicycle commuting on the Badger State Trail, Capital City State Trail and Millitary Ridge State Trail.

The Harlem Globetrotters are coming back to Madison.

The world-famous traveling basketball tour stops at  Alliant Energy Center Dec, 29 at 7 p.m.

This season the Globetrotters have signed one of the most extraordinary rookie classes in team history. Some of the newest Globetrotters joining current stars Big Easy Lofton and Handles Franklin will be TNT Maddox, the team’s first female player in almost two decades and Jacob Hops Tucker, the 50-inch vertical leaper and current champ of the 2011 College Slam Dunk Contest, both of whom are scheduled to appear with the team at the Alliant Energy Center.

For tickets, go to www.alliantenergycenter.com.

The Madison Parks Department is inviting residents to join the Adopt Ice Partnership initiative. The idea of Adopt Ice Partnership combines city resources with volunteer power to provide the community with quality ice for outdoor hockey and skating. 

The Parks Division has partnered with neighbors and interested individuals to assist in the maintenance of the ice rinks. 

After major snow storms, parks staffs' first priority is safety and plowing of roads, bike trails, sidewalks and parking lots. After those priorities are addressed, then staff can address ice rink maintenance. 

With the Adopt Ice Partnership, citizens pitched in after a snow storm to remove the snow from the ice rinks. This allowed parks staff to get the rinks in prime condition for skating much more quickly.