In 1960, Ben proposed a bet to Ted. The New Year is often a time for grand comprehensive declarations and promises. But, sooner or later, these declarations usually wind up not being as true as they initially seemed. Ben lost this bet, but everyone, including Sam, ended up happier in the end.
Special Notes about the 2015 Puzzle Challenge: To be considered for Fastest Solver points, you must verify your solution with Certitude. Finders will receive Top Finder points when submitting Found It logs to the cache page. All "point" scoring is arbitrary, subject to change, at the discretion of the cache owner, and probably completely meaningless (unless you just want to be announced sooner at the celebration party on Sunday, December 13th, 2015, and even that might not happen in the right order). The real challenge is just to see whether you can solve all of these caches by the end of the year. To maintain fairness, hints should not be offered by the cache owner or other solvers until the fifteenth of the month.
Special Notes about this month's cache: This month, the cache is neither in the East Bay nor the South Bay. So maybe those two factions can stop arguing over where the next hide should be.
You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.