Turnaround season for local wrestler

Receiving a fifth-place award on the medal stand in front of a capacity crowd at Wells Fargo Arena and a statewide television audience two weeks ago was a far cry from where Isaac Adamson stood nine months earlier. Brushes with the law and repeated probation violations had landed the Creston High School student in a court-ordered residency at Clarinda Academy. The school, established in 1992, is a residential foster care facility providing treatment and shelter care to at-risk and delinquent male and female youths from several states. Such court-ordered youth placements are state-funded. Failure to comply with terms of probation after a criminal mischief charge in Creston, and habitual absence from school, were factors in Adamson’s assign