Stahle’s family ran The Davis Clipper for three generations until it shut down in 2020.Stahle’s grandfather, John Stahle Sr., co-founded the Bountiful paper in 1891 with a local business owner, according to a. At the time, Stahle told The Salt Lake Tribune that revenues from advertising and subscriptions had declined in recent years, and the coronavirus pandemic made the paper’s operation “no longer viable.
In 2020, Stahle received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Utah Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Stahle was the original publisher of the Spectrum in St. George, and published other newspapers in communiies across Utah and Arizona, according to “We will all reflect on how Gail touched our lives, and how his work as a publisher kept us informed,”“And hopefully, we’ll realize how grateful we should be for the dedication to journalism that largely defined Gail Stahle.