Haines Borough school board members this week learned via the Internet that one of their four finalists for the superintendent job isn’t quite what they thought.

Members in the past week discovered Iner Joelson of Laurens, Iowa abruptly quit his superintendent job at the Laurens-Marathon school district on March 10, citing differences with the school board there.

Joelson had a “somewhat stormy” history there, including his controversial firing of a principal in 2008, according to…