Dub Harwell, publisher of The Times from 1982-84 and member of the Gainesville community until 2003, died Aug. 14 at the age of 86 at a nursing home in Asheville, N.C. He suffered from Alzheimer’s disease for about the last 15 years of his life.Harwell’s son, Craig, said his father fell in love with Gainesville when the Gannett Co., then owner of The Times, moved him to the city as the paper was gearing up to become one of the first print sites for USA Today. After serving as publisher for two years, he moved to a position with Gannett in Delaware before retiring in 1988. In 1995, he relocated to Gainesville.“(He) absolutely fell in love with the area and the people,” Harwell said of his father’s first stint in Gainesville.Johnny Vardeman, managing editor at the time Harwell was publisher, described him as fair-minded and businesslike.“He wanted the paper to be fair and objective and not favor any one person or any one organization,” Vardeman said.