 The current Taroom Public Library opened in 1976.Taroom made national news headlines in December 2014 when a man and two children were found near the town after being missing for eleven days.The trio, consisting of Steve Van Lonkhuyzen and his two young sons, had departed the Brisbane suburb of Lota on 11 December 2014 for a road journey to Cairns when they became stranded in Expedition National Park north-west of Taroom, after their four-wheel-drive vehicle became bogged.