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FOUGHT FOR LAKEFRONT, BUILT SANTA’S COTTAGE, PLAYED CARDIFF GIANT James Dean, Village Trustee, And Much More By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com James Dean, a Cooperstown village trustee since the Democratic sweep in 2012 began his party’s almost decade-long control of 22 Main St., is stepping down. While known today as a trustee, Dean has been part of the civic landscape long before that: • Since early 1981, when, recently arriving (in 1977) from New Jersey, he launched a…